John Ruskin

The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...

John Ruskin praised the pure and straightforward truth 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...

Mary Howitt called the Boadicea picture very fine, truly sublime.Ruskin had demanded in a letter: What do you know about Boadicea? Leave such subjects alone and paint me a pheasant's wing.Bessie Rayner Parkes

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure 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...

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.

Ruskin in 1881 wrote scornfully of an the English Cockney school, which consummates itself in George Eliot, insinuating that she was catering to a suburban bourgeois audience with no aesthetic values.

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...

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.

She was president of the RuskinSociety between 1903 and 1904.

He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .

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...

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 ...

Matilda Betham-Edwards later wrote that her brilliant sketches were admired by Ruskin , and that her great artistic gifts were sacrificed to purely philanthropic ends.

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...

JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.