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 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...
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.
69-70
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.
270
and that her great artistic gifts were sacrificed to purely philanthropic ends.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
269
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...
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...
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.
5
, No. 17, Jan. 1902, pp. 3-17.
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