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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | They had met in 1883, and become engaged within five days. The wedding took place four months later. The marriage was said to be a happy one. Stannard soon gave up his career in engineering... |
Friends, Associates | John Strange Winter | JSW
had an extensive social circle in London—her biographer, Oliver Bainbridge
, notes that a number of social claims were made upon her by reason of her popularity, and that these were always in advance... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Strange Winter | At the height of her career JSW
gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton
. She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Strange Winter | Relaying this account in his biography of JSW
, Oliver Bainbridge
wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade
, Charles
and Henry Kingsley |
Literary responses | John Strange Winter | JSW
's military writings prompted John Ruskin
to declare her in the Daily Telegraphthe author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British... |
Textual Production | Amabel Williams-Ellis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | She first took a strong interest in Ruskin
when A. J. Cook
, editor of the Miner, told her that reading Ruskin inspired him to enter Leftist politics. She then researched and wrote on... |
Education | Mary Augusta Ward | On her arrival in Oxford, her father
became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor
, and having her copy work for him. He provided... |
Reception | Lucy Walford | 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... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1843 (1863): 261 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 66 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | 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. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 69-70 Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 22 |
Health | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was persuaded by Ruskin
to winter on the Continent for the sake of her health. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 15 |
Reception | Elizabeth Siddal | 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. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 14 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Siddal | She was sketched by the two women and by Rossetti, who accompanied her. The sketch by Smith survives and is reproduced in Marsh and Nunn's catalogue to the exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester City Art Galleries. 103 |
Timeline
5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...
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5 April 1843
10 May 1849: John Ruskin published The Seven Lamps of...
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10 May 1849
John Ruskin
published The Seven Lamps of Architecture, a seminal text for the Arts and Crafts movement.
3 March 1851: John Ruskin published The Foundations, the...
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3 March 1851
John Ruskin
published The Foundations, the first volume of his influential study of architecture and culture entitled The Stones of Venice.
13 May 1851: John Ruskin published a letter in The Times...
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13 May 1851
19 December 1851: English landscape painter Joseph Turner ...
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19 December 1851
English landscape painter Joseph Turner
died.
By 23 July 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice,...
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By 23 July 1853
John Ruskin
published The Stones of Venice, Volume the Second—The Sea Stories.
By 22 October 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice....
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By 22 October 1853
John Ruskin
published The Stones of Venice. Volume the Third—The Fall.
7 May 1855: Painter Joanna Mary Boyce's Elgiva was hung...
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7 May 1855
Painter Joanna Mary Boyce
's Elgiva was hung at the Royal Academy
exhibition; this was Boyce's first public exposure.
July 1855: Painter John Everett Millais married Euphemia...
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July 1855
Painter John Everett Millais
married Euphemia Chalmers Gray
, whose marriage to John Ruskin
had been annulled earlier in the year.
1856: John Everett Millais exhibited The Blind...
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1856
1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...
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1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts appeared.
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 159-80.
163
1865: Housing reformer Octavia Hill began to manage...
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1865
Housing reformer Octavia Hill
began to manage her first block of residences, in Paradise Place, Marylebone.
Before October 1865: John Ruskin published his popular treatise...
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Before October 1865
John Ruskin
published his popular treatise on gender roles, Sesame and Lilies.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
1871: John Ruskin and George Allen founded George...
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1871
Texts
Ruskin, John, and John Ruskin. “Lecture IV. Fairy Land: Mrs. Allingham and Kate Greenaway”. The Art of England, George Allen, 1979, pp. 115-57.
Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin. Editors Cook, E. T. and Alexander Wedderburn, George Allen, 1912.