John Ruskin

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Standard Name: Ruskin, John
Black and white three-quarter-length image of John Ruskin from a photograph taken at the Working Men's Club. His left hand reaches under the right lapel of his dark jacket, touching a long watch-chain.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Ruskin showed his admiration of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's psalms (not thinking them hers, but all Philip Sidney 's) by publishing a selection as Rock Honeycomb.
“Introduction”. The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, edited by John C. A. Rathmell, translated by. Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, New York University Press, 1963, p. xi - xxxii.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
qtd. in
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991.
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Literary responses George Eliot
Ruskin in 1881 wrote scornfully of an the English Cockney school, which consummates itself in George Eliot,
qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
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insinuating that she was catering to a suburban bourgeois audience with no aesthetic values.
Literary responses Juliana Horatia Ewing
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).
Lascelles, Mary Madge. Juliana Horatia Ewing, 1841-1885: An Appreciation. Privately printed, 1985.
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Literary responses Alice Meynell
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,...
Literary responses Flora Shaw
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...
Occupation Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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...
Occupation John Oliver Hobbes
She was president of the RuskinSociety between 1903 and 1904.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Lewis Carroll
He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Occupation Anna Mary Howitt
AMH was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley , editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to...
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, 1989.
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Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery, 1991.
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Occupation Emilie Barrington
EB , who was artistically gifted, entered work for the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1871, while pregnant with her second child, but was not accepted. She claimed to have taken art lessons from Ruskin ...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Matilda Betham-Edwards later wrote that her brilliant sketches were admired by Ruskin ,
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
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and that her great artistic gifts were sacrificed to purely philanthropic ends.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
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Occupation Jean Ingelow
She always concerned herself with the plight of the poor and she frequently paid for and served what she called copyright dinners for elderly paupers in Holland Street, Kensington. (She paid for them out...
Performance of text John Oliver Hobbes
JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.
Hobbes, John Oliver. “Dante and Botticelli”. Saint George, Vol.
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, No. 17, Jan. 1902, pp. 3-17.
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