Note 27 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Passages from volumes I and III of The Stones of Venice are copied into an undated commonplace book of George Eliot's now at the Beinecke Library. On Ruskin's letter to The Times, see Letters, II, 156. On the Edinburgh lectures, see Haight, p. 144, and The Leader, 10 June 1854, pp. 545-46. On The Political Economy of Art, see Letters, 11, 422. George Eliot's library contained a copy of Joseph Milsand's L'Esthe'tique anglaise, e'tude sur John Ruskin (Paris, 1864); see Baker, The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library, #1479.
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