John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn

John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn

Author: Rachel Dickinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1351194771

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"The great Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin spans 39 volumes and, over the course of the century, further compilations of his private diaries and letters have appeared: but the most important epistolary relationship of his later years, shared with his Scottish cousin Joan (Agnew Ruskin) Severn, has until now been entirely unpublished. These letters - more than 3,000 of them - have been challenging for Ruskin scholars to draw upon, with their baby-talk, apparent nonsense and unelaborated personal references. Yet they contain important statements of Ruskins opinions on travel, on fashion, on the ideal arts and crafts home, on effective education and other questions: and Ruskin often used his letters to Severn as a substitute for his personal diary. In this important new edition, Dickinson presents an edited, annotated selection of a correspondence which, until now, has been almost inaccessible to scholars of Ruskin and of the Victorian period."


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Download or read book John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn written by Rachel Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin spans 39 volumes and, over the course of the century, further compilations of his private diaries and letters have appeared: but the most important epistolary relationship of his later years, shared with his Scottish cousin Joan (Agnew Ruskin) Severn, has until now been entirely unpublished. These letters - more than 3,000 of them - have been challenging for Ruskin scholars to draw upon, with their baby-talk, apparent nonsense and unelaborated personal references. Yet they contain important statements of Ruskins opinions on travel, on fashion, on the ideal arts and crafts home, on effective education and other questions: and Ruskin often used his letters to Severn as a substitute for his personal diary. In this important new edition, Dickinson presents an edited, annotated selection of a correspondence which, until now, has been almost inaccessible to scholars of Ruskin and of the Victorian period."

Collection of Letters to Joan Severn

Collection of Letters to Joan Severn

Author: Francesca Alexander

Publisher:

Published: 1885

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Collection consists of 159 letters from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn (MA 7362.1-159);3 envelopes without letters from Alexander to Severn (MA 7362.160-162); 4 letters from Alexander to Ruskin (MA 7362.163-166); 1 excerpt from a letter from Ruskin to Alexander, in Alexander's hand (MA 7362.167); 5 letters from Ruskin to Alexander (MA 7362.168-172); and 2 pen drawings of flowers (MA 7362.173-174). Letters from Alexander to Severn concern primarily the mental health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, as well as gardening and flowers, and the health of Alexander, Severn, and Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander. Most are written from Florence and signed "Sorella." Correspondence between Ruskin and Alexander concerns Alexander's writing and Ruskin's health. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for detailed descriptions.


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Download or read book Collection of Letters to Joan Severn written by Francesca Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection consists of 159 letters from Francesca Alexander to Joan Severn (MA 7362.1-159);3 envelopes without letters from Alexander to Severn (MA 7362.160-162); 4 letters from Alexander to Ruskin (MA 7362.163-166); 1 excerpt from a letter from Ruskin to Alexander, in Alexander's hand (MA 7362.167); 5 letters from Ruskin to Alexander (MA 7362.168-172); and 2 pen drawings of flowers (MA 7362.173-174). Letters from Alexander to Severn concern primarily the mental health of Alexander's "Fratello," John Ruskin, as well as gardening and flowers, and the health of Alexander, Severn, and Alexander's "Mammina," Lucia Gray Swett Alexander. Most are written from Florence and signed "Sorella." Correspondence between Ruskin and Alexander concerns Alexander's writing and Ruskin's health. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for detailed descriptions.

Letters, 1866-1888, to Arthur Severn and Joan Severn

Letters, 1866-1888, to Arthur Severn and Joan Severn

Author: John Ruskin

Publisher:

Published: 1866

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Consists chiefly of A.L.S. of John Ruskin to his cousin and caretaker, Joan Severn, written from France, Italy, and Switzerland, from 12 September to 30 October 1888.


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Download or read book Letters, 1866-1888, to Arthur Severn and Joan Severn written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists chiefly of A.L.S. of John Ruskin to his cousin and caretaker, Joan Severn, written from France, Italy, and Switzerland, from 12 September to 30 October 1888.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

Author: Andrew Ballantyne

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1780234708

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John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew Ballantyne rescues Ruskin from the dustbin of history’s trifles to reveal a deeply attuned thinker, one whose copious writings had tremendous influence on all classes of society, from roadmenders to royalty. Ballantyne examines a crucial aspect of Ruskin’s thinking: the notion that art and architecture have moral value. Telling the story of Ruskin’s childhood and enduring devotion to his parents—who fostered his career as a writer on art and architecture—he explores the circumstances that led to Ruskin’s greatest works, such as Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, and Unto This Last. He follows Ruskin through his altruistic ventures with the urban poor, to whom he taught drawing, motivated by a profound conviction that art held the key to living a worthwhile life. Ultimately, Ballantyne weaves Ruskin’s story into a larger one about Victorian society, a time when the first great industrial cities took shape and when art could finally reach beyond the wealthy elite and touch the lives of everyday people.


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Download or read book John Ruskin written by Andrew Ballantyne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew Ballantyne rescues Ruskin from the dustbin of history’s trifles to reveal a deeply attuned thinker, one whose copious writings had tremendous influence on all classes of society, from roadmenders to royalty. Ballantyne examines a crucial aspect of Ruskin’s thinking: the notion that art and architecture have moral value. Telling the story of Ruskin’s childhood and enduring devotion to his parents—who fostered his career as a writer on art and architecture—he explores the circumstances that led to Ruskin’s greatest works, such as Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, and Unto This Last. He follows Ruskin through his altruistic ventures with the urban poor, to whom he taught drawing, motivated by a profound conviction that art held the key to living a worthwhile life. Ultimately, Ballantyne weaves Ruskin’s story into a larger one about Victorian society, a time when the first great industrial cities took shape and when art could finally reach beyond the wealthy elite and touch the lives of everyday people.

John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

Author: Valerie Purton

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1783088060

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An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin’s influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin’s many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth’s future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin’s birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.


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Download or read book John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education written by Valerie Purton and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin’s influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin’s many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth’s future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin’s birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.

Christmas Story

Christmas Story

Author: John Ruskin

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780874133738

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Presented here for the first time is the full text of John Ruskin's Christmas Story and his related letters of interpretation in which he describes what he believes to be a mystic experience placing him under the guidance of the soul of his lost love, Rose La Touche.


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Download or read book Christmas Story written by John Ruskin and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here for the first time is the full text of John Ruskin's Christmas Story and his related letters of interpretation in which he describes what he believes to be a mystic experience placing him under the guidance of the soul of his lost love, Rose La Touche.

The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin

The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin

Author: Francis O'Gorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1107054893

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Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).


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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

Persistent Ruskin

Persistent Ruskin

Author: Keith Hanley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1317082095

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Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group's engagement with Ruskin's thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection.


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Download or read book Persistent Ruskin written by Keith Hanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group's engagement with Ruskin's thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection.

The Venice Myth

The Venice Myth

Author: David Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1317317491

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Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.


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Download or read book The Venice Myth written by David Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

Author: Anne Longmuir

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1040104061

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the book provides detailed biographical contexts for each of these relationships before considering the interplay of each woman’s writing with Ruskin’s. Focusing on literature, art, economics, and gender, it offers close readings of a selection of each woman’s oeuvre alongside Ruskin’s prose to demonstrate the affinities and the moments of disagreement between Ruskin and these writers. Though primarily aimed at an academic audience, the book will also be of interest to general readers with a developed interest in nineteenth-century culture. It advances readers’ understandings of the complex web of influence that existed between Ruskin and women writers in the 1850s and 1860s, establishing the opportunities that Ruskin’s art theory offered women writers engaged with social questions and the apparent influence of these writers on Ruskin’s own emerging political economy. By analysing women writers’ responses to Ruskin’s work—and his response to theirs—this book complicates and challenges assumptions about Ruskin’s supposedly troubled relationship with women.


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Download or read book John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer written by Anne Longmuir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the book provides detailed biographical contexts for each of these relationships before considering the interplay of each woman’s writing with Ruskin’s. Focusing on literature, art, economics, and gender, it offers close readings of a selection of each woman’s oeuvre alongside Ruskin’s prose to demonstrate the affinities and the moments of disagreement between Ruskin and these writers. Though primarily aimed at an academic audience, the book will also be of interest to general readers with a developed interest in nineteenth-century culture. It advances readers’ understandings of the complex web of influence that existed between Ruskin and women writers in the 1850s and 1860s, establishing the opportunities that Ruskin’s art theory offered women writers engaged with social questions and the apparent influence of these writers on Ruskin’s own emerging political economy. By analysing women writers’ responses to Ruskin’s work—and his response to theirs—this book complicates and challenges assumptions about Ruskin’s supposedly troubled relationship with women.