New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads, brings her out of the shadow of her friendship with John Ruskin ...

John Ruskin’s concept of “illth,” the downside of wealth, speaks to America in our own day. We know this intuitively: True prosperity is not the possession of mammon, nor is the commonwealth ...

Adams, a 20th-century engineer and art connoisseur who fastidiously collected the work of John Ruskin, a 19th-century English writer and artist. He admired Ruskin throughout his life, saying once ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.58.3.03 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.58.3.03 This essay traces the connection between the ...

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad ...

Before its closure in September 2021, thousands of people visited the market town every year to follow in the footsteps of poet John Ruskin and enjoy the view, which he described as ‘one of the ...