Guild of St George

JR founded the Guild of St George , a commune of workmen adhering to the tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement. It did not achieve a legal form until 1878.

Katharine Harris Bradley , one of the writers who published as Michael Field , was rejected as a member of the Guild when she confessed her aetheism. Bradley's beliefs infuriated Ruskin; in one letter he...

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...