John Ruskin

Ruskin was furious at the revelation of her atheism, and sent her an angry series of letters in which he called her too stupid. This rift, however, was not absolute: it did not...

Katharine and Edith Cooper shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Symons , Charles Shannon , Sarianna Browning , Thomas Sturge Moore

Katharine admitted the truth of her authorship to John Ruskin after she sent him a copy of her work. His response was less than flattering. I did accidently open the Minnesinger and liked a bit...

Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery in London, the Louvre

Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin

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).

One of its illustrations (by Helen Paterson, later Allingham , who illustrated a number of JHE 's books), of children in big beaver bonnets . . . seated at a shop-counter buying flat-irons, was...

JHE 's youngest brother reported that she thought the structure of any literary work its most vital feature, and too often ignored. She took her views on structural requirements from Ruskin 's Elements of Drawing...

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...

Ruskin in 1881 wrote scornfully of an the English Cockney school, which consummates itself in George Eliot, insinuating that she was catering to a suburban bourgeois audience with no aesthetic values.

ED 's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning , George Grote , Thomas Huxley ,...

According to Liz Stanley , the extent of minutiae, repetition, and corresponding lack of emotional or psychological recording or retrospective analysis in the diaries' accounts of HC 's daily work is a result of their...

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...

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 ...

FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle