Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900 ___ British ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Ruskin, who is now considered by some as the greatest art and social commentator of the Victorian period in Britain, was the son of a wine merchant. The family moved to Herne Hill when Ruskin was four, and to Dulwich when he was 20. In 1836, he began studying at Christ Church, Oxford University, and, while still in his early 20s, travelled with his parents to Italy and Switzerland. Thanks to funding by his father, Ruskin was able to indulge a passion for collecting art, in particular the paintings of Turner. Aged 24, his first volume of Modern Painters' was published. After more trips to Italy, he published a second volume in 1846. Two years later he married Euphemia Chalmers Gray, the daughter of friends of his parents, but the marriage did not last long. In the early 1850s, Ruskin became involved with the Pre-Raphaelites, one of whom, John Everett Millais, married Euphemia (after her marriage with Ruskin was annulled on the grounds that it had not been consummated). Ruskin went on to write many important and influential books, such as 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' and further volumes of Modern Painters'. He became a great advocate for the Gothic style, and an opponent of the debasing effects of the industrial revolution. In the 1860s, he had a further calamitous affair with a very young Irish girl, Rose La Touche, which dragged on until she died in 1875. In 1869, he was elected the first Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, and achieved some success as a lecturer. He resigned his post after ten years, and, thereafter, was subject to more frequent bouts of the mental illness that had beset him through much of his life. After his parents had died, and for the last 30 years of his life, Ruskin's main residence was in the Lake District, which is where he died a few days after the start of the 20th century.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - John Ruskin's birthdays

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1830 1835-1889 ___ literary travel art health weather society love/sex self people

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University - 29 volumes, 1835-1888

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diaries of John Ruskin
A Tour to the Lakes in Cumberland
The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin
 

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