John Ruskin

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Standard Name: Ruskin, John

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Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
The artistic pursuits of EG 's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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Friends, Associates Kate Greenaway
Much has been written about KG 's intimate and longstanding, but often unpredictable, friendship with prominent art critic John Ruskin . They were introduced through a painter named Henry Stacy Marks .
Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited.
62
Ruskin was...
Friends, Associates Violet Hunt
Friends of VH 's family included John Ruskin , Edward Burne-Jones , John Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Robert Browning , and Christina Rossetti , who read Violet's early poems. VH also met and...
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.
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Health Anna Mary Howitt
She seems to have had a nervous breakdown after Ruskin destroyed her confidence in her painting ability, a breakdown which expressed itself through spiritualist beliefs: she claimed to be directed in her actions by invisible...
Instructor Flora Shaw
On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy , where she was...
Instructor Emilie Barrington
Later, she said that she took art lessons from Ruskin as well as Arthur Hughes .
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
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.
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Intertextuality and Influence Michael Field
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
Intertextuality and Influence Vernon Lee
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Dinah Mulock Craik
The kingdom of the title is the moral sphere assigned to women in Victorian gender ideology. The book opens with an epigraph from John Ruskin . The story is of twins who illustrate the extremes...
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...

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