John Ruskin

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

Her patron John Ruskin gave ES a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's Aurora Leigh, apparently viewing her in the same light as its eponymous heroine.

She was sketched by the two women and by Rossetti, who accompanied her.

Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship , she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater , Ruskin , Benjamin Jowett , Mark Pattison , and Goldwin Smith .

The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...

After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with...

On her arrival in Oxford, her father became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor , and having her copy work for him. He provided...

AWE published her first biography, The Tragedy of John Ruskin.

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...

They had met in 1883, and become engaged within five days. The wedding took place four months later. The marriage was said to be a happy one. Stannard soon gave up his career in engineering...

JSW had an extensive social circle in London—her biographer, Oliver Bainbridge , notes that a number of social claims were made upon her by reason of her popularity, and that these were always in advance...

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

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...