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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 ...
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 ...
Nardwuar was born John Ruskin in Vancouver in 1968. He is Jewish. [11] His father, Vernon, was an engineer [12] and his mother Olga Ruskin (née Bruchovsky) [13] was a local journalist, high school history teacher and historian. She published a history of Vancouver historical figure John "Gassy Jack" Deighton. His mother exposed him to local ...
Text. The King of the Golden River at Wikisource. The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria is a fantasy story originally written in 1841 by John Ruskin for the twelve-year-old Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married. [1] It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which ...
Box office. $721,143 [ 3 ] Effie Gray is a 2014 British biographical film written by Emma Thompson and directed by Richard Laxton, starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, David Suchet, Derek Jacobi, James Fox, Claudia Cardinale, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, and Robbie Coltrane, in his final film appearance before his death in 2022.
The "last" are the eleventh hour labourers, who are paid as if they had worked the entire day. Rather than discuss the contemporary religious interpretation of the parable, whereby the eleventh hour labourers would be death-bed converts, or the peoples of the world who come late to religion, Ruskin looks at the social and economic implications, discussing issues such as who should receive a ...
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. [1]
Hough, 36, discussed her sexuality in a 2019 Women’s Health interview, mentioning a conversation she had had with her then-husband, Canadian ice hockey player Brooks Laich.