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  2. John Ruskin - Wikipedia

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    John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy . Ruskin was heavily engaged by the work of Viollet-le-Duc which he ...

  3. Rose La Touche - Wikipedia

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    Rose was born to John "The Master" La Touche (1814-1904), of a Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland and ran a bank, and his wife Maria La Touche, the only child of the Dowager Countess of Desart, County Kilkenny. The family lived in Harristown House, Co. Kildare. Introduction to John Ruskin John Ruskin, 1882

  4. Effie Gray - Wikipedia

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    Effie Gray. Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais ( née Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and writer who was married to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously married the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage never having been consummated; it was subsequently ...

  5. Fors Clavigera - Wikipedia

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    Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain was the name given by John Ruskin to a series of letters addressed to British workmen during the 1870s. They were published in the form of pamphlets. The letters formed part of Ruskin's interest in moral intervention in the social issues of the day on the model of his mentor ...

  6. Lilias Trotter - Wikipedia

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    Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander ...

  7. James McNeill Whistler - Wikipedia

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    James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA ( / ˈwɪslər /; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

  8. The Awakening Conscience - Wikipedia

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    The Awakening Conscience. The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which depicts a woman rising from her position in a man's lap and gazing transfixed out the room's window. The painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain ...

  9. The Countess (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Countess is a play written by the American playwright and novelist Gregory Murphy. It recounts the break-up of the marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray, one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era in Britain. Written in 1995, Murphy's two-act drama premiered in New York in 1999, and transferred twice to ever-larger Off-Broadway venues.

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