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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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
Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Rigby
ER (Lady Eastlake) joined a crowd of over three hundred to hear John Ruskin lecture at the Royal Institution .
qtd. in
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
2: 214
Literary responses Juliana Horatia Ewing
She was reciprocally admired by Ruskin in the nineteenth century, and admired also by Kipling in the twentieth. Critic Mary Lascelles lamented at the centenary of JHE 's death that her books had been allowed...
Literary responses Jean Ingelow
The reviewer for the Times noted that Miss Ingelow is still diffuse and has not yet learned to be brief.
qtd. in
Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972.
71
Athenæum reviewer John Westland Marston , however, found that this, her second major work,...
Literary responses John Strange Winter
JSW 's military writings prompted John Ruskin to declare her in the Daily Telegraphthe author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
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John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Literary responses Jean Ingelow
In 1875JI 's friend John Ruskin admitted that he disapproved of her move away from didacticism. He nevertheless cast her as a character of her own creation, calling her my albatross—my Jean—instead of Jenny.
qtd. in
Knoepflmacher, Ulrich Camillus. “Male Patronage and Female Authorship: The Case of John Ruskin and Jean Ingelow”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, 1995, pp. 13-46.
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Literary responses Christina Rossetti
Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure
qtd. in
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
119
a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...
Literary responses Michael Field
Katharine admitted the truth of her authorship to John Ruskin after she sent him a copy of her work. His response was less than flattering. I did accidently open the Minnesinger and liked a bit...
Literary responses May Laffan
For such a short piece this has been reviewed extensively; its popularity endured until the end of the nineteenth century. The Spectator said that [n]o work of fiction that we have seen for a long...
Literary responses Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1843 (1863): 261
The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...
Literary responses May Laffan
John Ruskin praised the pure and straightforward truth
qtd. in
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
175
of this story, but added: Miss Laffan knows and sees the children of her own country thoroughly, but she has no clear perceptions of the Scotch...
Literary responses Anna Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt called the Boadicea picture very fine, truly sublime.
qtd. in
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
216
Ruskin had demanded in a letter: What do you know about Boadicea? Leave such subjects alone and paint me a pheasant's wing.
qtd. in
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
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Bessie Rayner Parkes

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