John Ruskin

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

She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...

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

The artistic pursuits of EG 's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

Reviews of Cranford were positive, focusing on its charm and apparent simplicity. In the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley commended its touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness.

KG may have harboured unrequited romantic feelings for Ruskin . Among poems inspired by her romantic daydreams, she wrote in a letter dated 27 February 1887: I think it deepen'd—I'm not sure
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Throughout the 1880s KG illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert) and...

Much has been written about KG 's intimate and longstanding, but often unpredictable, friendship with prominent art critic John Ruskin . They were introduced through a painter named Henry Stacy Marks . Ruskin was...

She argues that Carlyle was under-appreciated but that the twentieth century would discover him to be concerned with its problems, spiritual as well as economic, and would see a revival of interest in him. She...

Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin , John Stuart Mill

The present Royal Holloway College (merged with Bedford) holds correspondence with Methuen and Co. dating from 1907-09 which includes letters of advice from BH . A projected book on Ruskin is discussed and another, on...

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.

She was president of the RuskinSociety between 1903 and 1904.

John Ruskin 's severe censure of a painting intended as her masterpiece (a heroic depiction of Boadiceabrooding over her wrongs, drawn from Barbara Leigh Smith ) may have impelled AMH to give up exhibiting her work.