John Ruskin

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...

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...

Mary Howitt called the Boadicea picture very fine, truly sublime.Ruskin had demanded in a letter: What do you know about Boadicea? Leave such subjects alone and paint me a pheasant's wing.Bessie Rayner Parkes

VH 's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt , born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy and William Wordsworth , John Ruskin ...

The first of VH 's two younger sisters was christened Venetia Margaret but was known as Venice after The Stones of Venice by Ruskin , who was also her godfather.

The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt 's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare 's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed...

Friends of VH 's family included John Ruskin , Edward Burne-Jones , John Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Robert Browning , and Christina Rossetti , who read Violet's early poems. VH also met and...

By eleven, encouraged by their mother, Violet and her sister Venice were competing for Ruskin 's affections: they referred to him as either the prophet or the Professor. When she was thirteen years old,...

JI met John Ruskin after corresponding with him for several months; the two remained friends until her death three years before his.

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...

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,...

In 1875JI 's friend John Ruskin admitted that he disapproved of her move away from didacticism. He nevertheless cast her as a character of her own creation, calling her my albatross—my Jean—instead of Jenny.

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...

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

GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter