John Ruskin

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...

Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...

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...

The reviewer for the Times noted that Miss Ingelow is still diffuse and has not yet learned to be brief.Athenæum reviewer John Westland Marston , however, found that this, her second major work,...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

She was president of the RuskinSociety between 1903 and 1904.

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