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
Intertextuality and Influence Flora Annie Steel
Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship , she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater , Ruskin , Benjamin Jowett , Mark Pattison , and Goldwin Smith .
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Intertextuality and Influence Vernon Lee
Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson , this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...
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.
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Literary responses Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Ruskin showed his admiration of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's psalms (not thinking them hers, but all Philip Sidney 's) by publishing a selection as Rock Honeycomb.
“Introduction”. The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, edited by John C. A. Rathmell, translated by. Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, New York University Press, 1963, p. xi - xxxii.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
qtd. in
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991.
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Literary responses George Eliot
Ruskin in 1881 wrote scornfully of an the English Cockney school, which consummates itself in George Eliot,
qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
167
insinuating that she was catering to a suburban bourgeois audience with no aesthetic values.
Literary responses Juliana Horatia Ewing
Our Field in this volume (first published in Aunt Judy's Magazine in September 1876) was said to have been Ruskin 's favourite among JHE 's stories (though not, Mary Lascelles thinks, a favourite with children).
Lascelles, Mary Madge. Juliana Horatia Ewing, 1841-1885: An Appreciation. Privately printed, 1985.
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Literary responses Alice Meynell
AM later condemned her early preludes, but the book received praise from Tennyson , Aubrey Thomas de Vere , and Ruskin , who thought A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age,...
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...
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 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.
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Athenæum reviewer John Westland Marston , however, found that this, her second major work,...
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...

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