John Ruskin

The kingdom of the title is the moral sphere assigned to women in Victorian gender ideology. The book opens with an epigraph from John Ruskin . The story is of twins who illustrate the extremes...

Unto this Present (perhaps an allustion to John Ruskin 's critique of political economy in Unto this Last, 1860) is a meditation on the origins of earth, and the rise of philosophy as against...

She first took a strong interest in Ruskin when A. J. Cook , editor of the Miner, told her that reading Ruskin inspired him to enter Leftist politics. She then researched and wrote on...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

At the height of her career JSW gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton . She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write...

Relaying this account in his biography of JSW , Oliver Bainbridge wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade , Charles and Henry Kingsley

Later, she said that she took art lessons from Ruskin as well as Arthur Hughes .

On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy , where she was...

She seems to have had a nervous breakdown after Ruskin destroyed her confidence in her painting ability, a breakdown which expressed itself through spiritualist beliefs: she claimed to be directed in her actions by invisible...

ES was persuaded by Ruskin to winter on the Continent for the sake of her health.

Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC would have seen Alfred Tennyson , John Ruskin , William Holman Hunt , Fanny Kemble ...

ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

She meanwhile sustained her usual energetic and gossipy flow of correspondence with a wide range of literary and personal connections. She got caught up in the speculation surrounding the split between Effie and John Ruskin

As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw

ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...