Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Cultural formation | Michael Field | Ruskin
was furious at the revelation of her atheism, and sent her an angry series of letters in which he called her too stupid. qtd. in Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 156 |
death | Jane Welsh Carlyle | She had planned to host a tea-party whose guests were to include Geraldine Jewsbury
, John Ruskin
, the J. A. Froude
and his second wife
, and Margaret Oliphant
. Ruskin
was not told... |
Education | Frances E. W. Harper | Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin
, John Stuart Mill |
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... |
Education | Dorothy Richardson | 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... |
Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Greenaway | KG
may have harboured unrequited romantic feelings for Ruskin
. Among poems inspired by her romantic daydreams, Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited, 1981. 164 If... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | By eleven, encouraged by their mother, Violet and her sister Venice
were competing for Ruskin
's affections: they referred to him as either the prophet or the Professor. When she was thirteen years old,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt
, born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy
and William Wordsworth
, John Ruskin
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | Together they had six children: three daughters and three sons. Emily's education (including studies in Greek, Latin, and French) was probably guided by her father, Edward Andrews
, who had been Ruskin
's Greek tutor... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | The first of VH
's two younger sisters was christened Venetia Margaret
but was known as Venice after The Stones of Venice by Ruskin
, who was also her godfather. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 29-30 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt
's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare
's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed... |
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... |
Timeline
5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...
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5 April 1843
John Ruskin
, as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
12
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Smart, James P. A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin. Editor Wise, Thomas J., Vol.
2 vols.
, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1964. II: 47-58
Shepherd, Richard Herne. The Bibliography of Ruskin. E. Stock, 1881.
14
13 May 1851: John Ruskin published a letter in The Times...
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13 May 1851
John Ruskin
published a letter in The Times lauding the works of the Pre-Raphaelites
.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
283-4
19 December 1851: English landscape painter Joseph Turner ...
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19 December 1851
English landscape painter Joseph Turner
died.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
32-4
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
475
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
275
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(23 July 1853): 879-81
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(22 Oct. 1853): 1249-50
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.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
49
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3
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.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
285
1856: John Everett Millais exhibited The Blind...
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1856
John Everett Millais
exhibited The Blind Girl and Autumn Leaves.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
284-5
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, 1981, pp. 159-80.
163
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, 1981, 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.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
180
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
61
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
388-9
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.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
264-5
1871: John Ruskin and George Allen founded George...
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1871
John Ruskin
and George Allen
founded George Allen and Son
to publish Ruskin's work.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
157
Texts
Ruskin, John. Fors Clavigera. G. Allen, 1884, 8 vols.
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. Modern Painters. Smith, Elder, 1860, 5 vols.
Rock Honeycomb. Editor Ruskin, John, Translators Sidney, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Ellis and White, 1877.
Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Smith, Elder, 1849.
Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Smith, Elder, 1853, 3 vols.
Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin. Editors Cook, E. T. and Alexander Wedderburn, Library Edition, George Allen, 1912, 39 vols.