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	John Ruskin - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900), English writer and critic, was born in London, at Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, on the 8th of February 1819, being the only child of John James Ruskin and Margaret Cox.
		John Ruskin, the author's grandfather, a handsome lad of twenty, ran away with Catherine Tweddale, daughter of the Covenanting minister and of Catherine Adair, then a beautiful girl of sixteen.
		John Ruskin returned to his parents, with whom he resided till their death; and neither his marriage nor the annulling of it seems to have affected seriously his literary career.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Ruskin (5268 words)

	John Ruskin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of a wine importer who was one of the founders of the company that became Allied Domecq.
		Ruskin's pioneering of the ideas that led to the Arts and Crafts movement was related to the growth of Christian socialism, an ideology that he helped to formulate in his book Unto This Last, in which he attacked laissez faire economics because it failed to acknowledge the complexities of human desires and motivations.
		Ruskin's biographer, Mary Luytens, suggested that he rejected Effie because he was horrified by the sight of her pubic hair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ruskin (3437 words)

	John Ruskin
		John William Colenso was both a linguist and a pioneer of the critical examination of scripture.
		Ruskin often talked about Rose La Touche to Margaret Bell and her pupils and he began to hope that the girl might one day, perhaps quite shortly, be sent to Winnington for her education.
		John James, who grumbled in his diary about the visits from Winnington girls (`Miss Bell, 5 virgins to strawberries') felt differently about `innocent and loving Rose', as the diary describes her, while Margaret Ruskin took delight in an infant piety that was already a marked part of her character.
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	John Ruskin - Positano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Ruskin John Ruskin nacque a London nel 1819 (morì a Coniston [Lancashire] nel 1900), studiò a Oxford dove nel 1869 fu nominato professore di storia dell'arte.
		John Ruskin in his study at Brantwood, 1881, by W G Collingwood John Ruskin in his study at Brantwood, 1881, by W.G. Collingwood W.G. Collingwood who was to become after Ruskin, Coniston's most notable resident, was an artist, writer and antiquarian of more than local reputation and was Ruskin's secretary from 1881 onwards.
		Ruskin believed it was wrong to be a socialist and rich and he donated a great deal of his money to causes such as the St George's Guild in Paddington, the Whitelands College in Chelsea and the John Ruskin School in Camberwell.
	www.dacostantino.com /arte_a_positano.htm (3025 words)

	John Ruskin; a biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To Ruskin the relationship between art, morality and social justice was of paramount importance and he increasingly became preoccupied with social reform.
		Gothic was for Ruskin the expression of an integrated and spiritual civilisation; classicism represented paganism and corruption; the use of cast iron, and the increasing importance of function in architecture and engineering seemed to him a lamentable trend.
		Ruskin married (1848) Euphemia (Effie) Gray (the child of whom he had written The King Of the Golden River) but in 1854 the marriage was annulled and Effie later married Millais.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /decline/ruskinj.htm (333 words)

	Ruskin, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Ruskin was the virtual dictator of artistic opinion in England, but Ruskin’s reputation declined after his death, and he has been treated harshly by 20th-century critics.
		In 1848, Ruskin married Euphemia Gray, a beautiful young woman with social ambitions; the union, which apparently was never consummated, was annulled in 1854, and Mrs.
		Ruskin subsequently married the painter John Everett Millais.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ru/Ruskin-J.html (551 words)

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		Ruskin's influence upon Hopkins was as indelible as that of Oxford or even, perhaps, as that of Ignatius Loyola.
		Ruskin wrote that `to find even in all that appears most trifling or contemptible, fresh evidence of the constant working of the Divine power for glory and for beauty, and to teach it and proclaim it to the unthinking and the unregarding' was the `peculiar province' of the artist.
		Ruskin held as conceit the kind of Romantic approach which claimed that it matters little what things are in themselves, but only what they are to the individual.
	www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org /studies/john_ruskin.html (3136 words)

	John Ruskin (1819-1900)
		John Ruskin was born in London on 8 February 1819.
		Ruskin took up the cause of conservation with much passion and vigor, and many of the issues on which he campaigned are still valid today - town and country planning, green belts and smokeless zones.
		Ruskin died at Brantwood of influenza on 20 Jan 1900, and is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church in Coniston.
	www.visitcumbria.com /ruskin.htm (620 words)

	John Ruskin Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		John Ruskin's principal insight was that art is an expression of the values of a society.
		Ruskin had early begun to write both poetry and prose, and by the time he left Oxford he had already published articles on architecture and on other subjects.
		Ruskin's attack on the dehumanized ethic of modern industrial capitalism drew a bitter response from readers, but it influenced the thinking of many reformers in the developing Labour movement.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-ruskin (1157 words)

	John Ruskin
		Ruskin was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford (Christ Church), where he was awarded a prize for poetry, his earliest interest.
		Ruskin taught first at the Working Men's College in London[?], and then at Oxford University as Slade Professor of Art[?].
		Upon the death of his father (who was a wealthy wine merchant), Ruskin declared that it was not possible to be a rich socialist and gave away most of his inheritance to educational organizations including the George's Guild[?] in Paddington, the Whitelands College[?] in Chelsea[?] and the John Ruskin School[?] in Camberwell.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Ruskin.html (211 words)

	John Ruskin
		Margaret Ruskin, the author's mother, was a handsome, strong, stern, able, devoted woman of the old Puritan school, Calvinist in religion, unsparing of herself and others, rigid in her ideas of duty, proud, reserved and ungracious.
		John Ruskin returned to his parents, with whom he resided until their death; and neither his marriage nor the annulling of it seems to have affected seriously his literary career.
		John still lived there with his mother, aged 83, infirm, and failing in sight, to whom came as a companion their cousin, Joanna Ruskin Agnew, afterwards Mrs.
	www.nndb.com /people/221/000044089 (5083 words)

	Amardeep Singh: John Ruskin and Particularism
		I listened to the BBC 4 In Our Time discussion of John Ruskin on the way to work this morning, and was struck by a couple of things.
		Ruskin apparently described himself as "the sternest kind of Tory," but he was nothing like the other Tories of his era.
		The idea behind Ruskin's celebration of the decaying church at Calais is roughly congruent with that of Romanticism broadly construed -- the beauty produced by the evidence of the forces of nature, the inextricable (there's that word again) link between human artifice and the inevitable effects of time and age.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/04/john-ruskin-and-particularism.html (814 words)

	John Ruskin
		and social critic John Ruskin was born in 1819 in London, and died at Brantwood in the Lake District on Jan. 20, 1900.
		Ruskin pere’s profitable sherry business enabled the family to make annual pilgrimages to Italy, France and the Alps where, from a young age, Ruskin’s aesthetic appetites were nourished on a broad exposure to European architecture, painting, and the watercolors and drawings of Turner his father collected.
		Ruskin’s ideas, however, would go on to animate trade unionists and labor leaders in Britain and America, leaders of the growing Arts and Crafts movement, modernist designers and prove life-changing for figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Bernard Shaw and Mahatma Gandhi.
	www.ruskinartclub.org /johnruskin.htm (670 words)

	John Ruskin Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Ruskin was interested in the education of children, particularly young girls, and he wrote works for their instruction and essays and letters on the proper method and aim of education.
		Ruskin's universally acclaimed position as an art critic and moralist meant that his works were frequently given to children for their instruction, and his influence on the editors and authors who shaped their lives is incalculable.
		John Ruskin was born in London on 8 February 1819, the only child of John James Ruskin, a prosp.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-ruskin-dlb2 (190 words)

	Ruskin Museum, Coniston, Cumbria, About Ruskin
		John Ruskin (1819-1900) was one of the greatest Victorians; his range of interests and achievements were quite staggering.
		Ruskin said that it would lead to dishonesty and a 'rage to be rich.' He also wrote of the 'Goddess of Getting-On' - a deity worshipped by those having no faith in true values.
		Ruskin knew that philosophers and thinkers of the past, such as Plato, had come to ethical and moral judgments not unlike the fundamentals of Christianity.
	www.ruskinmuseum.com /ruskin.htm (1337 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: John Ruskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ruskin experienced a typically English "awakening of the senses" during a trip to Italy.
		Ruskin’s interest in the Gothic made him a natural ally of the Pre-Raphaelites, who were coming under attack in the 1850s for their anti-academic art.
		Ruskin was a major supporter of the English Arts and Crafts movement, which emerged as a reaction against machine-made products and the life of factory work.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1308 (725 words)

	Prologue: Ruskin's life
		John Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street, London, the only child of Margaret and John James Ruskin.
		His father, a prosperous, self-made man who was a founding partner of Pedro Domecq sherries, collected art and encouraged his son's literary activities, while his mother, a devout evangelical Protestant, early dedicated her son to the service of God and devoutly wished him to become an Anglican bishop.
		In 1880 Ruskin resigned his Oxford Professorship, suffering further attacks of madness in 1881 and 1882; but after his recovery he was re-elected to the Slade Professorship in 1883 and delivered the lectures later published as The Art of England (1884).
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/ruskin/pm/prologue.html (885 words)

	The Arts & Crafts Movement - People: John Ruskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ruskin is viewed by many as a member of a group of Englishmen who began the Arts and Crafts movement in that nation in the latter half of the 19th century.
		Ruskin's contributions to the era included his avowed dislike for classical works in buildings and art and his substitution of the Gothic with its asymmetry and roughness as the ideal for new art.
		Ruskin is most famous for his two books; "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" (1849) and "The Stones of Venice" (1853).
	www.arts-crafts.com /archive/jruskin.shtml (343 words)

	John Ruskin
		Ruskin intended the work to be a "continual challenger to the supporters of and apologists for a capitalist economy".
		It was Ruskin's socialist writing that influenced trade unionists and political activists such as Tom Mann and Ben Tillett.
		In 1884 Ruskin retired to Coniston in the Lake District.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jruskin.htm (771 words)

	John Ruskin
		John Ruskin, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and, importantly here, the pre-eminent art critic of his time.
		When, after this, Ruskin met the Pre-Raphaelites, he encouraged them in their ideals, acting as tutor, mentor, and generous supporter to Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt, as well as later artists in a similar spirit such as John Brett and John William Inchbold.
		Ruskin taught Pre-Raphaelite style drawing at the Working Men's College in London for some years, enlisting Rossetti to teach figure and watercolor painting, and afterwards Ford Madox Brown to fill the same position.
	www.victorianstation.com /authorruskin.htm (352 words)

	John Ruskin Cumbria
		John Ruskin was an author, art critic, philosopher, and advocate of social reform.
		Ruskin, from his mid-20's, preached on the 'evils of industry', saying everyone should return to a simple agricultural way of life.
		Ruskin suffered his first of many bouts of mental illness in 1878 and lived as a recluse from the 1880s until his death.
	www.thecumbriadirectory.com /People/John_Ruskin/John_Ruskin.php (719 words)

	John Ruskin — Infoplease.com
		John Ruskin: Critic and Reformer - Critic and Reformer The first volume of Ruskin's Modern Painters appeared in 1843.
		John Ruskin: Bibliography - Bibliography See his works (39 vol., 1903–12); M. Lutyens, The Ruskins and the Grays (1972);...
		John Ruskin: Early Life - Early Life Educated by his wealthy, evangelical parents, Ruskin was prepared for the ministry, and...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0842704.html (202 words)

	Arts and Crafts Movement - John Ruskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ruskin was an English writer, art critic and reformer, best known for his studies of architecture and its social and historical implications.
		Ruskin was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford.
		Rebelling against the aesthetically numbing and socially debasing effects of the Industrial Revolution, he put forth the theory that art, which is essentially spiritual, reached its zenith in the Gothic art of the late Middle Ages, which was inspired by religious and moral zeal.
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	Ruskin, John R Authors Literature Arts
		- Photograph of the marble bust of John Ruskin by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, modelled in Nov 1879, and housed in the Ruskin School of drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
		The house is filled with Ruskin's drawings and watercolours, together with much of his original furniture, books and personal items.
		Cook/Wedderburn, of essays by Ruskin on JW Turner.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Literature/Authors/R/Ruskin,_John (419 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ruskin Foundation is a charitable trust, founded in 1995, for the care, conservation and promotion of the legacy of John Ruskin.
		Ruskin For All is a major educational project of the Foundation, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
		Ruskin Today is an informal alliance of Ruskin-related interests that meets regularly to exchange information and promote cooperation in the Ruskin sphere.
	www.ruskin.org.uk (220 words)

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