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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| politics | Flora Shaw | With John Ruskin
's encouragement FS
opened a Co-operative shop for the benefit of the poorer people living around her family's home in Woolwich. |
| Literary responses | Flora Shaw | The Supplement to Allibone cites John Ruskin
's opinion of Castle Blair: The book is good, and lovely, and true, having the best description of a noble child (Winnie) that I ever read, and... |
| Textual Features | Maude Royden | Rather than beginning her autobiography with a description of her family heritage or her childhood, MR
treats it like a joint biography (or even a love-story, which was what many readers perceived) and opens with... |
| Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 119 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
published Records of Tennyson
, Ruskin
, and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning
). Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 224 |
| 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)... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
(Lady Eastlake) joined a crowd of over three hundred to hear John Ruskin
lecture at the Royal Institution
. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 2: 214 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
published a scathing critique of Ruskin
in an anonymous review of Modern Painters for the Quarterly. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 81 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
| Education | Dorothy Richardson | The headmistress, Miss Harriet Rebecca Sandell
, was a disciple of Ruskin
and promoted a liberal education for girls. DR
appreciated her education here, which included studies in English history, English literature, French, German, scripture... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Carol Watts
notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë
's Villette... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | Together they had six children: three daughters and three sons. Emily's education (including studies in Greek, Latin, and French) was probably guided by her father, Edward Andrews
, who had been Ruskin
's Greek tutor... |
| Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Timeline
1875: Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened a shop, the...
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1875
Arthur Lasenby Liberty
opened a shop, the present Liberty's
, at 218a Regent Street, London, and imported soft oriental fabrics, kimonos, and fans; he also persuaded British manufacturers to print oriental designs on soft...
2 July 1877: John Ruskin wrote a scathing review of Whistler...
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2 July 1877
John Ruskin
wrote a scathing review of Whistler
's Nocturne in Black and Gold, accusing the artist of flinging a pot of paint in the public's face; Whistler sued for libel.
1888: Mary Hoppus, writing as Mary A. Marks (her...
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1888
Mary Hoppus
, writing as Mary A. Marks (her married name), published her historicalnovelMasters of the World, which John Ruskin
called clever and splendid.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
13 August 1912: Octavia Hill, housing advocate and one-time...
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13 August 1912
Octavia Hill
, housing advocate and one-time friend of John Ruskin
, died of cancer in her home at 190 Marylebone Road, London.
1914: Nearly a century after the battle, artist...
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1914
Nearly a century after the battle, artist Elizabeth, Lady Butler
, painted On the Morning of Waterloo: her military subjects gained her a substantial following.
4 August 1914: George Allen and Unwin Limited formally registered...
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4 August 1914
George Allen and Unwin Limited
formally registered as a publisher in London.
1920: Peggy Webling's A Sketch of John Ruskin appeared...
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1920
Peggy Webling
's A Sketch of John Ruskin appeared in a twenty-nine page booklet several years after she had met him while doing recitations with her sisters.
1933: The businessman Frank Pick succeeded in bringing...
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1933
The businessman Frank Pick
succeeded in bringing together the many privately-owned underground railway lines in London under the management of a body to be called London Transport
.
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