John Ruskin

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...

JI met John Ruskin after corresponding with him for several months; the two remained friends until her death three years before his.

At the end of her life MRM was visited by John Ruskin and the US publisher James T. Fields . Her American literary connections were many: she corresponded with, and in some cases...

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....

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...

ES was persuaded by Ruskin to winter on the Continent for the sake of her health.

Later, she said that she took art lessons from Ruskin as well as Arthur Hughes .

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...

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...

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

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 .

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...

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...

Unto this Present (perhaps an allustion to John Ruskin 's critique of political economy in Unto this Last, 1860) is a meditation on the origins of earth, and the rise of philosophy as against...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...