John Ruskin

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Standard Name: Ruskin, John

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Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Travel May Laffan
Before 1880 ML certainly visited Edinburgh. This was the setting of her story Baubie Clark, and the location of the true story on which her tale was based. She wrote in a letter...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
Vineta Colby suggests that Lee's novel is not a specific attack on either Pre-Raphaelitism or Ruskin 's Christian aestheticism, but on the more general high art groups, which read hedonism into Pater and vaunted the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...
Textual Production Anna Mary Howitt
John Ruskin 's severe censure of a painting intended as her masterpiece (a heroic depiction of Boadiceabrooding over her wrongs, drawn from Barbara Leigh Smith )
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press.
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may have impelled AMH to give up exhibiting her work.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
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Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin , and she published anecdotes...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR published Records of Tennyson , Ruskin , and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning ).
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE published her first biography, The Tragedy of John Ruskin.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Edna Lyall
EL 's historical novel In the Golden Days, published this month, was the book which Ruskin 's niece Joan (Mrs Arthur) Severn was reading to him just before his death.
The title comes from...
Textual Production Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert) and...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley . Her Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson published another selection of her letters in 1925...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
The present Royal Holloway College (merged with Bedford) holds correspondence with Methuen and Co. dating from 1907-09 which includes letters of advice from BH . A projected book on Ruskin is discussed and another, on...
Textual Features Dorothy Richardson
Carol Watts notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë 's Villette...

Timeline

5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...

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5 April 1843

John Ruskin , as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.

10 May 1849: John Ruskin published The Seven Lamps of...

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10 May 1849

John Ruskin published The Seven Lamps of Architecture, a seminal text for the Arts and Crafts movement.

3 March 1851: John Ruskin published The Foundations, the...

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3 March 1851

John Ruskin published The Foundations, the first volume of his influential study of architecture and culture entitled The Stones of Venice.

13 May 1851: John Ruskin published a letter in The Times...

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13 May 1851

John Ruskin published a letter in The Times lauding the works of the Pre-Raphaelites .

19 December 1851: English landscape painter Joseph Turner ...

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19 December 1851

English landscape painter Joseph Turner died.

By 23 July 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice,...

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By 23 July 1853

John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, Volume the Second—The Sea Stories.

By 22 October 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice....

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By 22 October 1853

John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice. Volume the Third—The Fall.

7 May 1855: Painter Joanna Mary Boyce's Elgiva was hung...

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7 May 1855

Painter Joanna Mary Boyce 's Elgiva was hung at the Royal Academy exhibition; this was Boyce's first public exposure.

July 1855: Painter John Everett Millais married Euphemia...

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July 1855

Painter John Everett Millais married Euphemia Chalmers Gray , whose marriage to John Ruskin had been annulled earlier in the year.

1856: John Everett Millais exhibited The Blind...

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1856

John Everett Millais exhibited The Blind Girl and Autumn Leaves.

1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...

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1864-1867

The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 159-80.
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appeared.

1865: Housing reformer Octavia Hill began to manage...

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1865

Housing reformer Octavia Hill began to manage her first block of residences, in Paradise Place, Marylebone.

Before October 1865: John Ruskin published his popular treatise...

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Before October 1865

John Ruskin published his popular treatise on gender roles, Sesame and Lilies.

7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...

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7 October 1865

Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.

1871: John Ruskin and George Allen founded George...

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1871

John Ruskin and George Allen founded George Allen and Son to publish Ruskin's work.

Texts

Ruskin, John, and John Ruskin. “Lecture IV. Fairy Land: Mrs. Allingham and Kate Greenaway”. The Art of England, George Allen, 1979, pp. 115-57.
Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin. Editors Cook, E. T. and Alexander Wedderburn, George Allen, 1912.