John Ruskin

She always concerned herself with the plight of the poor and she frequently paid for and served what she called copyright dinners for elderly paupers in Holland Street, Kensington. (She paid for them out...

Art critic and patron John Ruskin bought for £30 all of artist ES 's available work, and put her on a quarterly allowance of £150 per year.

She was president of the RuskinSociety between 1903 and 1904.

He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .

AMH was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley , editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to...

EB , who was artistically gifted, entered work for the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1871, while pregnant with her second child, but was not accepted. She claimed to have taken art lessons from Ruskin ...

Matilda Betham-Edwards later wrote that her brilliant sketches were admired by Ruskin , and that her great artistic gifts were sacrificed to purely philanthropic ends.

Involved—with his brother , William Holman Hunt , John Everett Millais , and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR has subsequently become one of the most renowned...

AM later condemned her early preludes, but the book received praise from Tennyson , Aubrey Thomas de Vere , and Ruskin , who thought A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age,...

Our Field in this volume (first published in Aunt Judy's Magazine in September 1876) was said to have been Ruskin 's favourite among JHE 's stories (though not, Mary Lascelles thinks, a favourite with children).

The reviewer for the Times noted that Miss Ingelow is still diffuse and has not yet learned to be brief.Athenæum reviewer John Westland Marston , however, found that this, her second major work,...

Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...

She was reciprocally admired by Ruskin in the nineteenth century, and admired also by Kipling in the twentieth. Critic Mary Lascelles lamented at the centenary of JHE 's death that her books had been allowed...

The Supplement to Allibone cites John Ruskin 's opinion of Castle Blair: The book is good, and lovely, and true, having the best description of a noble child (Winnie) that I ever read, and...

JSW 's military writings prompted John Ruskin to declare her in the Daily Telegraphthe author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British...