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Instructor | Flora Shaw | 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... |
politics | Flora Shaw | With John Ruskin
's encouragement FS
opened a Co-operative shop for the benefit of the poorer people living around her family's home in Woolwich. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable. 23-4 |
Literary responses | Flora Shaw | 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... |
Textual Features | Maude Royden | Rather than beginning her autobiography with a description of her family heritage or her childhood, MR
treats it like a joint biography (or even a love-story, which was what many readers perceived) and opens with... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 119 |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 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... |
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. 224 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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)... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
(Lady Eastlake) joined a crowd of over three hundred to hear John Ruskin
lecture at the Royal Institution
. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 2: 214 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
published a scathing critique of Ruskin
in an anonymous review of Modern Painters for the Quarterly. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 81 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | 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... |
Education | Dorothy Richardson | The headmistress, Miss Harriet Rebecca Sandell
, was a disciple of Ruskin
and promoted a liberal education for girls. DR
appreciated her education here, which included studies in English history, English literature, French, German, scripture... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | Together they had six children: three daughters and three sons. Emily's education (including studies in Greek, Latin, and French) was probably guided by her father, Edward Andrews
, who had been Ruskin
's Greek tutor... |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
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