John Ruskin

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 ,...

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.

WM was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley , Thomas Carlyle , and John Ruskin (a particularly influential discovery).

In January 1875 Katharine Harris Bradley joined Ruskin 's Guild of St George , the still embryo utopian society to which this year Fanny Talbot made a gift of property to join Ruskin's initial donation...

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

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

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...

ER published a scathing critique of Ruskin in an anonymous review of Modern Painters for the Quarterly.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...