Giovanni Ruffini

Stevenson describes HCJ as surrounded by brilliant friends. In Paris she became a friend of prominent liberals including Cornelia Turner (to whom Percy Bysshe Shelley had once been romantically attracted), Daniele Manin , Vincenzo Gioberti

During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ 's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable publishing family, John Ruffini , and Vernon Lee .

Violet Paget (later VL ) met Cornelia Turner in Paris. A novelist, companion to Shelley , and lover of Giovanni Ruffini , Turner became a vital supporter of Violet's early writing.