by stuart | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
RUSKIN & LORD RONALD GIOWER AGAIN Following the publication of blog #29 on “Ruskin and Lord Ronald Gower”, I was delighted to hear from Bonhams in New York that they are auctioning a letter from Ruskin to Gower that provides further evidence of the nature and...
by stuart | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the second part of his two-part Ruskin Research Blog looking at William Morris’s declaration for socialism in November 1883, Stuart Eagles surveys the contemporary reaction to Morris’s Oxford lecture and finds a connection to Shakespeare and Jack the Ripper (well,...
by stuart | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
In his latest Ruskin Research Blog, Stuart Eagles looks back at the moment in November 1883 when William Morris declared for socialism in front of an audience at University College, Oxford. John Ruskin, the Slade Professor of Fine Art, responded warmly. Looking at the...
by stuart | Aug 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
In his latest Ruskin Research Blog, Stuart Eagles stays local and discovers another intriguing and unexpected connection between his hometown of Reading and Victorian polymath, John Ruskin … THE LOVE OF BOOKS &THE JOY OF READING Yes, dear reader, my title is a...
by stuart | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
In his latest Ruskin Research Blog, Stuart Eagles looks at an argument Ruskin had with an ideal husband about … THE CRAZE FOR CHEAPNESS In August 1912 an article appeared in the provincial press which asked, “Was Ruskin Right?” It was part of a column called “From the...
by stuart | Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you try to look up Lord Ronald Gower in a book about Ruskin, you almost certainly won’t find him. Yet, as Stuart Eagles explains in his latest Ruskin Research Blog, Gower and Ruskin had at least two meaningful meetings. The story involves Broadlands, Oxford, the...
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