John Ruskin

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

Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson , this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...

Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall

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

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...

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.

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.

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).

AM later condemned her early preludes, but the book received praise from Tennyson , Aubrey Thomas de Vere , and Ruskin , who thought A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age,...

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...

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...

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...

The reviewer for the Times noted that Miss Ingelow is still diffuse and has not yet learned to be brief.Athenæum reviewer John Westland Marston , however, found that this, her second major work,...

Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...

In 1875JI 's friend John Ruskin admitted that he disapproved of her move away from didacticism. He nevertheless cast her as a character of her own creation, calling her my albatross—my Jean—instead of Jenny.