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Ruskin Review

The Ruskin Review is our research journal.

To propose an article or themed issue, get in touch: the-ruskin@lancaster.ac.uk

Volume 14, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2018

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Nicholas Shrimpton, Ruskin and his Critics (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2017)
Cynthia Gamble, John Ruskin’s Response to Contemporaneous French Art
Chris Pool, Ruskin and his Genevan Pro-papa
James S. Dearden, Further Additions to the Catalogue of Books in John Ruskin’s Library
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2017
Review of Stephen Kite, Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture [Stephen Wildman]

Volume 13, No. 2 - Autumn 2017

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Jeffrey Richards, Stephen Wildman: a Tribute
Stephen Wildman, Twenty Years On
Tony Hilton, Ruskin and Lord Lindsay
Thomas Hughes, ‘Drawing’ and ‘colour’ in Ruskin’s drawings and art writing, c.1840-1866
Sara Atwood, ‘Syllable by syllable’: Ruskin and the Art of Language
G.L. Pane, Ruskin and Darwin’s natural affinities
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 24 (contributed by Cynthia Gamble)
Review of Keith Hanley & Caroline S. Hull’s John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings [Ray Haslam]
Review of Sally Goldsmith’s Thirteen Acres: John Ruskin and the Totley Communists [Sara Atwood]
Review of David Peacock’s ‘Three-corneredest of Chaplains’: John Ruskin and the Revd J.P. Faunthorpe [Sara Atwood]
Plus Alan Davis’ A Seafax in Sheffield.

Volume 13, No. 1 - Spring 2017

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Richard Britton, ‘Behold the twilight sanguine stain’: the tension between alliteration-consonance and imagery and the theology of Ruskin’s ‘Mont Blanc Revisited’
Anne M. Lane, A librarian in Venice: searching for Ruskin
Alan Davis, The further adventures of Ruskin and the Liber Studiorum, 1860-1871
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2016
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 23 (contributed by Robert Hewison)
Review of J.M.W. Turner’s The ‘Skies’ Sketchbook, with an introduction by David Blayney Brown [Alan Davis]
Plus David Ingram & Rachel Roberts’ Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, textiles and garden and James S. Dearden’s 54 Hunter Street – a retrospective visit.

Volume 12, No. 2 - Autumn 2016

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Francis O’Gorman, Ruskin and Forgetting (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2015)
Sarah Bunney, Crawley, a ‘gentleman’s personal gentleman’ – and a single parent
Cynthia Gamble, Chartres: Ruskin’s Springs of Eure
Stephen Wildman, New light on Ruskin sites: Terni, Meta, Vercelli, Assisi
Alan Davis, Ruskin and the art of Briony Clarke: a postscript on Turner and Goldau
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 22 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
Review of Vicky Albritton & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Lars Spuybroek’s The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design [Stephen Wildman]
Plus James S. Dearden’s May Queens I have known, or: what does the Library Edition say? and Alan Davis’ Ruskin’s Dreams – Coniston.

Volume 12, No. 1 - Spring 2016

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Andrew Hill, No Wealth but Life: Ruskin’s Message for the Modern Merchant
David Ingram, Ruskin’s Botanical Books: A Survey of Re-ordered and Annotated Second Edition Volumes of British Phaenogamous Botany (W. Baxter, 1834-43) and English Botany (J. E. Smith, & J. Sowerby, 1832-1840)
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2015
Review of Francis O’Gorman’s (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin [Jeffrey Richards]
Review of Annie Creswick-Dawson’s (with Paul Dawson) Benjamin Creswick [Stephen Wildman]
Plus James S. Dearden’s ‘A very distinguished friend.’ Remembering Van Akin Burd.

Volume 11, No. 2 - Autumn 2015

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Dinah Birch, Ruskin and the point of failure
Alan Davis, The laws that balance the wave: Ruskin and the art of Briony Clarke
James Dearden, Piracy and its aftermath
Chris Pool, Briar Rose and Fleur de Lys
Bernard Richards, Ruskin’s ‘old house’ in Chartres
Review of Ken and Jenny Jacobson’s Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Stuart Eagles’ Miss Margaret E. Knight and St George’s Field, Sheepscombe [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Richard Tandy’s Artifice or Nature: Whistler Versus Ruskin 1876-1880 [Robert Hewison]

Volume 11, No. 1 - Spring 2015

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Sara Stevenson, The experiment that proved Mr Ruskin was wrong about nature and art, ‘not merely evil but disastrous’: Philip Gilbert Hamerton and A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands
Alan Davis, ‘I am not answerable for the sky’: Ruskin, P. G. Hamerton, and printmaking
Sara Atwood, ‘A pile of feathers’: valuing education in a market society
Malcolm Hardman, Who is Silvia?: Ruskin and the question of coherence
James Dearden, Additions to the catalogue of books in Ruskin’s library
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2014
Review of James S. Dearden’s Rambling Reminiscences: A Ruskinian’s Recollections [Alan Davis]

Volume 10, No. 2 - Autumn 2014

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

John Batchelor, Ruskin among the giants (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2013)
Alan Davis, Ruskin and the Rose Queen
James S. Dearden, A tale of two churches: John Ruskin buys a porch, or history repeats itself
Paul Dawson, The 1858 Lecture Tour of Tunbridge Wells
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 20 (contributed by Tony Hilton)
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 21 (contributed by Robert Hewison & Alan Davis)
Review of Mark Frost’s The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Sara Atwood’s Report on the Symposium at Berkeley, California.

Volume 10, No. 1 - Spring 2014

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Francis O’Gorman, John Ruskin and Contemporary Economics
Dinah Birch, John Ruskin: Political Economy and the Culture of ‘Social Affection’
Haruka Miki, ‘Ruskin’s Outcry’: The Reception History of John Ruskin in Early Twentieth-century Japan
David Ingram, Wild Gardens: the Robinson, Ruskin and Severn Correspondence
Sarah Bunney, Victory for Banstead Commons with help (a little) from Ruskin
J.A. Hilton, Ruskin’s Heraldry
Van Akin Burd, A Peripatetic Photograph of John Ruskin
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2013
Review of Zoë Bennett’s Using the Bible in Practical Theology: Historical Contemporary Perspectives [Andrew Tate]
Review of Anne-Marie Millim’s The Victorian Diary: Authorship and Emotional Labour [Stephen Wildman]

Volume 9, No. 2 - Autumn 2013

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Stuart Eagles, Ruskin as ‘world-author’: The Netherlands
Malcolm A. Cooper, Ettie and Maude: problems of identification in the diaries and letters of John Ruskin, and the letters of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Holmes, Ruskin’s Windows at the Oxford Museum
Alan Davis, ‘The essence of the beast’: Ruskinian naturalism in the animal sculptures of Paul Szeiler
James S. Dearden, How did John James Ruskin get to the office?
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 19 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
Review of J. S. Dearden’s The Library of John Ruskin [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Stephen Kite’s Building Ruskin’s Italy [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Keith Hanley & Brian Maidment’s (eds.) Persistent Ruskin: studies in influence, assimilation and effect [Jeffrey Richards]
Plus Jeffrey Richards’ Tony Hilton, Papal Knight and Sara Atwood’s Report on the Symposium at Berkeley, California.

Volume 9, No. 1 - Spring 2013

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Brian Ingram, D. F. Strauss, The Bible, and Ruskin
Alan Davis, In search of souplesse: Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelite wood-engraved illustration
Sara Atwood, ‘The Lines of nature’: Bryan Nash Gill and the Ruskinian Vision
David S. Ingram, Richard J. Bisgrove and Claire P. Willsdon, Report on Study Day at Broadway Arts Festival
Chris Pool, Ruskin’s Châlet in the Air
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2012
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 18 (contributed by Gill Mawby)
Review of Ian Warrell’s Turner’s Secret Sketches [Alan Davis]

Volume 8, No. 2 - Autumn 2012

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd

Contents

Stuart Eagles, Ruskin’s ‘very small circle’ of readers in Denmark
Peter Yeandle, Ruskin and the Christian Socialist Conscience
James S. Dearden, The Two Misses Harrison
Gillian Mawby, Ruskin in Barbados
Sarah Bunney, Two Ruskinians in Venice: William Smart (Thread Manufacturer) and John W. Bunney (Artist)
Paul Dawson, Hugh Allen: The Next Generation
Jeffrey Richards, The Good Fairy Ruskin
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 17 (contributed by Stuart Eagles)
Review of Lars Spuybroek’s The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design [Sara Atwood]
Review of John Ruskin’s Praeterita (ed. Francis O’ Gorman) [Andrew Tate]
Review of Samuel Jones’ (ed.) The Enduring Relevance of Octavia Hill (ill. by Quentin Blake) [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Van Akin Burd’s How I met Helen Gill Viljoen, Alan Davis’ Ruskin and Elgar and Robert Hewison’s ‘Unto This Last’.

Volume 8, No. 1 - Spring 2012

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Kenwright

Contents

Clive Wilmer, ‘No such thing as a flower … no such thing as a man’: John Ruskin’s Response to Darwin
Alan Davis, ‘Autobiographies of the Heart’: Drawings by Artists of Ruskin’s Circle
Robin J. Eaglen, The Numismatic Interests of John Ruskin
Martin Seddon, A bridge by any other name: the search for the ‘Ponte dei Pugni’, Venice
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2011
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 16 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
Review of Sara Atwood’s (ed.) Nineteenth-Century Prose: Special Issue on John Ruskin, Vol. 38 [Francis O’Gorman]
Review of Cynthia Gamble & Matthieu Pinette’s L’œil de Ruskin: L’exemple de la Bourgogne [Edward J. Hughes]

Volume 7, No. 2 - Autumn 2011

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Kenwright

Contents

Robert Hewison, The Elements of Ruskin: Ruskin Now
Cynthia Gamble, John Ruskin and a Venetian Episode in the Life of the National Gallery
Sarah Bunney, Burgess, Bunney, Ruskin, and a Baby – Summer 1869
Chris Pool, The Other Adèle
Gill Mawby, Ruskin, Silence, and the Swedish Nightingale
Bernard Richards, Caravaggio, A Dissenting Victorian Voice
Review of Bob Blaisdell’s (ed.) John Ruskin on genius and Damion Searls’ (translator and ed.) Marcel Proust and John Ruskin on reading [Stephen Wildman]
Review of Paul Dawson’s John Thomas Hobbs, Adventurer: From John Ruskin’s Valet to Pioneer Australian Settler [Cynthia Gamble]
Review of Stuart Eagles’ Ruskin and Tolstoy (The Ruskin Lecture 2010), and other Guild Pamphlets [Alan Davis]
Plus James S. Dearden’s ‘They caught the cap off of his head’. What Happened to Charles Richardson? and Mark Frost’s The Great Interlaken Cutlery Mystery.

Volume 7, No. 1 - Spring 2011

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor, with help from Stuart Eagles

In memory of Professor Nigel Whiteley.

Contents

Sara Atwood, Ruskin, Plato and the Education of the Soul
Claudio Silveira Amaral, Rui Barbosa and John Ruskin: The Policy of Drawing Education in Brazil
Malcolm Hardman, Praeterita: Writing One’s Life as ‘Things Omitted’
Alex Woodall, Liz Mitchell and Sharon Blakey, Mary Mary Quite Contrary – The Mary Greg Collection at Manchester Art Gallery
Stuart Eagles, Ruskin’s Readers: 2. William Marwick and the Ruskin Reading Guild
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2010
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 15 (contributed by Brian Ingram)
Review of Stuart Eagles’ After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies Of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920 [Sara Atwood]
Review of Sara Atwood’s Ruskin’s Educational Ideals [Francis O’Gorman]
Review of Merryn Williams’ Effie. A Victorian Scandal – From Ruskin’s Wife to Millais’s Muse and Suzanne Fagence Cooper’s The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais [Stephen Wildman]

Volume 6, No. 2 - Autumn 2010

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

J.A. Hilton, Ruskinian Catholicism
Darren Bevin, Ruskin and Heightened Interest in the Alps in the 1850s
Jennifer Harris, The Legend of John Ruskin in Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada
Zoë Bennett, ‘A fact full of power, or a dream full of meaning’? John Ruskin and the Bible
Van Akin Burd, Young John Ruskin, his Tutor in Mathematics, John Rowbotham and the Geometric Impossible
Gillian Mawby, Ruskin and ‘Fin de Siècle’ Sweden
Review of Fred Inglis’ History Man: The Life of R.G. Collingwood [Brian Ingram]
Review of Jeffrey Richards & Katherine Newey’s John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre [Richard Foulkes]
Plus Heather Birchall’s Ruskin and the Facebook Generation.

Volume 6, No. 1 - Spring 2010

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor, with help from Sara Atwood and Ray Haslam

Contents

Jonathan Glancey, Of Skeletons and Souls
Andrew Hill, Wise Leaders, Just Rewards: Ruskin’s Policy on Pay
Christopher May, Re-reading ‘Unto This Last’ Today
Clive Wilmer, Ruskin, Morris and Medievalism (1996 Mikimoto Lecture)
Alan Davis, ‘Chateau de Blois’ and the Law of Help
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2009
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 14 (From Percy Fitzgerald, 1895. Memoirs of an Author. London: Bentley, pp.296-9 – contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
An appreciation of Ian Bliss, Roger Garside, Ray Haslam (eds.) and consultant Sarah Quill’s Electronic Edition of Ruskin’s Venetian Notebooks (1849-50) [Robert Hewison]
Review of Robert Hewison’s Ruskin on Venice: ‘The Paradise of Cities’ [Rosella Zorzi]
Review of Harriet Ritvo’s The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism [Stuart Eagles]
Review of James S. Dearden’s Further Facets of Ruskin: Some Bibliographical Studies [Stuart Eagles]
Review of Matthew Townend’s The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: The Norse Medievalism of W.G. Collingwood and his Contemporaries [J.A. Hilton]
Review of Turner and the Masters, a Tate Britain exhibition (23 September 2009 – 31 January 2010) [Bernard Richards]
Plus Bernard Richards’ John Ruskin’s ‘Life on Mars’.

Volume 5, No. 2 - Autumn 2009

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
In memory of Keith Macklin (1931-2009).

Contents

Gill Cockram, The Interpretation of History in Ruskin’s Social Thought
William McKeown, Portrait of the Critic as a Young Girl: James Northcote’s 1822 Portrait of John Ruskin
Zoë Bennett, ‘By Fors, thus blotted with a double cross’: Some Notes Upon the Death of Rose La Touche
James S. Dearden, Some Green Photographs
Stuart Eagles, Ruskin’s Readers: 1. John Clifford’s Ruskin Club at Westbourne Park
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 13 (Ruskin and ‘Sixties’ book illustration – contributed by Alan Davis)
Review of Rachel Dickinson’s (ed.) John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters [Alan Davis]
Review of Anselm Heinrich, Kate Newey & Jeffrey Richards’ (eds.) Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture [Brian Maidment]
Review of Ian Bliss, Roger Garside, Ray Haslam (eds.) & consultant Sarah Quill’s Electronic Edition of Ruskin’s Venetian Notebooks (1849-50) [Francis O’Gorman]
Review of Julie Sheldon’s (ed.) The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake [Ray Haslam]
Review of Francesca Orestano & Francesca Frigerio’s (eds.) Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Stephen Wildman’s ‘Coeli enarrant saepenumero’: New Light on Dark Clouds and Cynthia Gamble’s Ruskin v. Palladio: the Architectural Style Wars.

Volume 5, No. 1 - Spring 2009

Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Debbie Challis, ‘The duty of truth’: the friendship and influence between John Ruskin and Charles Newton
J.A. Hilton, An American response to Ruskin on Gibbon and Darwin
Robin Holt, The credit crisis and some gothic relief
James S. Dearden, Some unresolved Turner-Ruskin problems
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2008
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 12 (From Hon. Stephen Coleridge, 1913. Memories by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ch.IX, pp.86-112 – contributed by Stephen Wildman)
Plus Alan Davis’ On the Trail of the Shropshire Lads.

Volume 4, No. 3 - Autumn 2008

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Alan Davis, A Note on Ruskin and Cotman
Sarah Bunney, J.W. Bunney’s ‘big picture’: an update
Stuart Eagles, J.H. Whitehouse and Boys’ Literature
Stuart Eagles, Ruskin the Worker: Hinksey and the Origins of Ruskin Hall, Oxford
James S. Dearden, John Ruskin’s Pottery
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 11 (A copy of a flyer advertising Croydon’s Ruskin Square – contributed by Robert Hewison)
Review of Cynthia Gamble’s John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lad [Bernard Richards]
Plus Stephen Wildman’s The Ruskin Library and Research Centre and Ray Haslam & Alan Davis’ Keith Hanley: Director of the Ruskin Centre 2000-2008.

Volume 4, No. 2 - Spring 2008

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Alan Davis, Ruskin and Persephone Revisited: The Goddess, the Maiden, and the Bud
Hiroko Masui, The Study of John Ruskin in Japan: How his Works were used in English Pedagogy before World War II
Marion McClintock, The evolving journey: the Ruskin Seminars 1990 –
Stephen Wildman, Illiberal views on art: Ruskin’s advice to Miss Pipe
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2007
Ray Haslam, A Letter from Francesca Alexander
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 10 (Extracts from Augustus J.C. Hare’s (1896) The Years with Mother: An Abridgement of the First Three Volumes of The Story of My Life (London: Century) and W.R. Lethaby’s (1922) Form in Civilization: Collected Papers on Art & Labour (London: OUP) – contributed by Tony Hilton)
Review of Robert S. Nelson’s Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument [Tony Hilton]

Volume 4, No. 1 - Autumn 2007

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Tony Pinkney, Thomas Shore, Ruskin as a Revolutionary Preacher, Part II
Sarah Bunney, John W. Bunney’s ‘big picture’ of St Mark’s, and the Ruskin-Bunney relationship
James S. Dearden, A later Ruskin letter?
Incidentally Ruskin, No. 9 (Extract from Simon Winder, Editor of the Penguin Great Ideas books who gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the series’ selection/publishing process – contributed by Alan Harrington)‌

Volume 3, No. 3 - Summer 2007

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Tony Pinkney, Thomas Shore, Ruskin as a Revolutionary Preacher
Brian Ingram, Experiments in New Ways of Living and Working
Review of A. Hêlard’s Ruskin et les Cathédrales de la Terre [Chris Pool: Chamonix sees the return of Ruskin]
Plus John George’s Ruskin and Watts: Two Victorian Greats and John Coleman’s John Ruskin and Anthony Froude – Notes on the Relationship.

Volume 3, No. 1/2 (Joint Issue) - Spring 2007

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor

Contents

Kei Nijibayashi, Ruskin’s Savageness as Romantic: Rousseau’s Influence on The Nature of Gothic
Bernard Richards, Ruskin as a Comic Writer
Roger Garside, Notes on the Construction of the Library Edition CD
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 8 (Extract from Harrison’s (1918) John Ruskin (Macmillan and Co.) – contributed by Tony Hilton)
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – November 2005 to December 2006
Review of J.B. Bullen’s Byzantium Rediscovered [J.A. Hilton]
Plus Maciek Ulita’s Ruskin’s Echoes in Poland and Lindsey Walker’s Index of Articles from the Ruskin Bulletin 1994-2004.‌

Volume 2, No. 3 - Summer 2006

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker

Contents

Robert Hewison, The Construction of The Stones of Venice: The Manuscript Evidence (Or, Harry Potter and the Mystery of the Painted Numbers)
John Illingworth, Fellow Travellers: Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster and the Influence on him of Rickman, Whewell and Ruskin
Hiroko Masui, A Study of Ruskin’s Utopian Vision
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 6 (Extract from Recollections of Rossetti by Hall Caine (1928), who as a young man lived at Tudor House, Cheyne Walk with Rossetti for a few months in 1881, the last year of Rossetti’s life – contributed by Brian Ingram)
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 7 (Country Diary: Lake District article by Tony Greenbank (1 May 2006), reproduced with the kind permission of The Guardian – contributed by John Illingworth)

Volume 2, No. 2 - Spring 2006

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker

Contents

J.A. Hilton, Ruskin and Smetham: The Critic and the Artist
Wendy Nakanishi, Locating Ruskin’s Letters – Public and Private – in the English Epistolary Tradition
Alan Davis, Journeys Through the Doors of Perception: John Ruskin and William Blake
Sara Atwood, “Too peculiar to be popular”: Ruskinian Pedagogy, Winnington and The Ethics of the Dust
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 5 (Extract from an item that was written c. 1950 by J.B. Morton for his Beachcomber column in the Daily Express – contributed by John Illingworth)

Volume 2, No. 1 - Autumn 2005

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker

Contents

Stuart Eagles, ‘A Higher, Purer, Truer Life for the People’: Ruskin and the Beginnings of Labour Representation
Ray Haslam, Ruskin, Drawing and the Argument of the Lens
Sarah Bunney, Rose, Three ‘Buns’ and a Missing Portrait
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – October 2004 to October 2005
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 4 (Extract from Through the Stage Doors, the 1958 autobiography of playwright Sydney Blow whose brother, the architect Detmar Blow, accompanied Ruskin on his French and Italian tour in 1888 – contributed by Jeffrey Richards)

Volume 1, No. 3 - Summer 2005

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker

Contents

Pascal Debout, Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds: John Ruskin’s Evangelical Programme for a Truly Christian Nation
James S. Dearden, Ruskin and St. Ursula’s Disappearing Dog
J.A. Hilton, Ruskin’s Anglo-Saxonism: Constructing and Deconstructing The Pleasures of England
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 3 (Extract from Ford Madox Hueffer/Ford’s Rossetti: A Critical Essay on his Art – contributed by Brian Ingram)
Review of Juliet Kinchin & Paul Stirton’s Is Mr Ruskin Living too Long? Selected Writings of E.W. Godwin on Victorian Architecture, Design and Culture [Jeffrey Richards]

Volume 1, No. 2 - Spring 2005

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker

Contents

Alan Davis, ‘What I intended the plates to be’: Ruskin’s Etchings for The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Chris Pool, Ruskin’s Houses at Mornex
Gillian Mawby, Some Observations on an Annotated Edition of John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture in the Archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin in the Oxford DNB
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 2 (Extract from the painter Henry Holiday’s (1914) Reminiscences of my Life (Heinemann) – contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
Plus Emma Barlet’s Ruskin For All, Malcolm Hardman’s Cataloguing Ruskin’s Library and Other Challenges: James S. Dearden in Conversation with the Ruskin Society and David Peacock’s The Friends of Ruskin’s Brantwood.

Volume 1, No. 1 - Autumn 2004

Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
In memory of John Evans.

Contents

Brian Ingram, Editorial
Philip Davies, The Importance of Rudeness (The Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2003)
Ross Eddington, John Ruskin’s Classical Education
Ruskin Incidentally, No. 1 (Extract from Lillie Langtry’s (1925) The Days I Knew (Duckworth) – contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – 2003 to September 2004

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