John Ruskin

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...

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...

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...

ER (Lady Eastlake) joined a crowd of over three hundred to hear John Ruskin lecture at the Royal Institution .

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

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...

ATR published Records of Tennyson , Ruskin , and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning ).

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)...

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Art critic and patron John Ruskin bought for £30 all of artist ES 's available work, and put her on a quarterly allowance of £150 per year.