John Ruskin — Biographical Materials

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General

• A Brief Biography
• A Ruskin Chronology
• Ruskin's home's: Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, and Brantwood on Lake Coniston (15 views, some accompanied by text from Praeterita)
• Ruskin's passion for traveling and collecting
• Ruskin's travels
• Ruskin's and the pleasure tour
• Ruskin and Lake Como
• Relying too Much on the Bembridge Hammer: A review of Tim Hilton, John Ruskin: The Later Years
• The Psychology of Fragmentation in Ruskin's Early Writing
• Memorials to Ruskin and Posthumous Portraits

Ruskin's Childhood and His Lifelong Relationship with his Parents

• Ruskin's Childhood
• Ruskin's tortured relationship with his father
• Ruskin's and his parents
• Ruskin's Madness

His Autobiography

• Ruskin interpreting Ruskin (chapter from the Oxford Past masters Ruskin volume)
• The Structure of Ruskin's Praeterita
• Clive Wilmer on Truth and Memory in Ruskin's Praeterita
• Ruskin: Writing about Himself Writing about Himself

Ruskin's Religions

• Early religious training and belief
• Loss of belief
• Return to belief

Ruskin's Loves

• The Loss of Adèle
• Ruskin, the Divorce from Effie, and the Theory of Perfidious Elites
• Rosie My Pet — Ruskin and Rose La Touche
• Rose as Image of the Heart's Desire

Ruskin's Relations with Artists and Writers

• Ruskin and Coventry Patmore
• John Ruskin and William Holman Hunt
• Portraits of the Artists and Their Critic: Ruskin's Relation with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Coventry Patmore's Friendship with John Ruskin
• The Falling Rocket: Ruskin, Whistler and Abstraction in Art
• Ruskin's Spring and Fountain, Fulking, Sussex

Introductions to Ruskin and His Works

• George P. Landow
• Paul Sawyer

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Last updated 1 August 2012