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Past Issues
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Volume 14, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2018
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Nicholas Shrimpton, Ruskin and his Critics (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2017)
- Cynthia Gamble, John Ruskin’s Response to Contemporaneous French Art
- Chris Pool, Ruskin and his Genevan Pro-papa
- James S. Dearden, Further Additions to the Catalogue of Books in John Ruskin's Library
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2017
- Review of Stephen Kite, Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture [Stephen Wildman]
Volume 13, No. 2 - Autumn 2017
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Jeffrey Richards, Stephen Wildman: a Tribute
- Stephen Wildman, Twenty Years On
- Tony Hilton, Ruskin and Lord Lindsay
- Thomas Hughes, ‘Drawing’ and ‘colour’ in Ruskin’s drawings and art writing, c.1840-1866
- Sara Atwood, ‘Syllable by syllable’: Ruskin and the Art of Language
- G.L. Pane, Ruskin and Darwin’s natural affinities
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 24 (contributed by Cynthia Gamble)
- Review of Keith Hanley & Caroline S. Hull's John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings [Ray Haslam]
- Review of Sally Goldsmith's Thirteen Acres: John Ruskin and the Totley Communists [Sara Atwood]
- Review of David Peacock's ‘Three-corneredest of Chaplains’: John Ruskin and the Revd J.P. Faunthorpe [Sara Atwood]
Plus Alan Davis' A Seafax in Sheffield.
No. 1 - Spring 2017
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Richard Britton, ‘Behold the twilight sanguine stain’: the tension between alliteration-consonance and imagery and the theology of Ruskin's ‘Mont Blanc Revisited’
- Anne M. Lane, A librarian in Venice: searching for Ruskin
- Alan Davis, The further adventures of Ruskin and the Liber Studiorum, 1860-1871
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2016
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 23 (contributed by Robert Hewison)
- Review of J.M.W. Turner's The ‘Skies’ Sketchbook, with an introduction by David Blayney Brown [Alan Davis]
Plus David Ingram & Rachel Roberts' Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, textiles and garden and James S. Dearden's 54 Hunter Street – a retrospective visit.
Volume 12
No. 2 - Autumn 2016
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Francis O’Gorman, Ruskin and Forgetting (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2015)
- Sarah Bunney, Crawley, a ‘gentleman’s personal gentleman’ - and a single parent
- Cynthia Gamble, Chartres: Ruskin’s Springs of Eure
- Stephen Wildman, New light on Ruskin sites: Terni, Meta, Vercelli, Assisi
- Alan Davis, Ruskin and the art of Briony Clarke: a postscript on Turner and Goldau
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 22 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
- Review of Vicky Albritton & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson's Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Lars Spuybroek's The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design [Stephen Wildman]
Plus James S. Dearden's May Queens I have known, or: what does the Library Edition say? and Alan Davis' Ruskin's Dreams - Coniston.
No. 1 - Spring 2016
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Andrew Hill, No Wealth but Life: Ruskin’s Message for the Modern Merchant
- David Ingram, Ruskin’s Botanical Books: A Survey of Re-ordered and Annotated Second Edition Volumes of British Phaenogamous Botany (W. Baxter, 1834-43) and English Botany (J. E. Smith, & J. Sowerby, 1832-1840)
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2015
- Review of Francis O'Gorman's (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin [Jeffrey Richards]
- Review of Annie Creswick-Dawson's (with Paul Dawson) Benjamin Creswick [Stephen Wildman]
Plus James S. Dearden's 'A very distinguished friend.' Remembering Van Akin Burd.
Volume 11
No. 2 - Autumn 2015
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Dinah Birch, Ruskin and the point of failure
- Alan Davis, The laws that balance the wave: Ruskin and the art of Briony Clarke
- James Dearden, Piracy and its aftermath
- Chris Pool, Briar Rose and Fleur de Lys
- Bernard Richards, Ruskin’s ‘old house’ in Chartres
- Review of Ken and Jenny Jacobson's Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Stuart Eagles' Miss Margaret E. Knight and St George’s Field, Sheepscombe [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Richard Tandy's Artifice or Nature: Whistler Versus Ruskin 1876-1880 [Robert Hewison]
No. 1 - Spring 2015
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Sara Stevenson, The experiment that proved Mr Ruskin was wrong about nature and art, ‘not merely evil but disastrous’: Philip Gilbert Hamerton and A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands
- Alan Davis, ‘I am not answerable for the sky’: Ruskin, P. G. Hamerton, and printmaking
- Sara Atwood, ‘A pile of feathers’: valuing education in a market society
- Malcolm Hardman, Who is Silvia?: Ruskin and the question of coherence
- James Dearden, Additions to the catalogue of books in Ruskin’s library
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2014
- Review of James S. Dearden's Rambling Reminiscences: A Ruskinian's Recollections [Alan Davis]
Volume 10
No. 2 - Autumn 2014
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- John Batchelor, Ruskin among the giants (Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2013)
- Alan Davis, Ruskin and the Rose Queen
- James S. Dearden, A tale of two churches: John Ruskin buys a porch, or history repeats itself
- Paul Dawson, The 1858 Lecture Tour of Tunbridge Wells
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 20 (contributed by Tony Hilton)
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 21 (contributed by Robert Hewison & Alan Davis)
- Review of Mark Frost's The Lost Companions and John Ruskin's Guild of St George: A Revisionary History [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Sara Atwood's Report on the Symposium at Berkeley, California.
No. 1 - Spring 2014
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Francis O'Gorman, John Ruskin and Contemporary Economics
- Dinah Birch, John Ruskin: Political Economy and the Culture of 'Social Affection'
- Haruka Miki, 'Ruskin's Outcry': The Reception History of John Ruskin in Early Twentieth-century Japan
- David Ingram, Wild Gardens: the Robinson, Ruskin and Severn Correspondence
- Sarah Bunney, Victory for Banstead Commons with help (a little) from Ruskin
- J.A. Hilton, Ruskin's Heraldry
- Van Akin Burd, A Peripatetic Photograph of John Ruskin
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2013
- Review of Zoë Bennett's Using the Bible in Practical Theology: Historical Contemporary Perspectives [Andrew Tate]
- Review of Anne-Marie Millim's The Victorian Diary: Authorship and Emotional Labour [Stephen Wildman]
Volume 9 No. 2 - Autumn 2013
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Stuart Eagles, Ruskin as 'world-author': The Netherlands
- Malcolm A. Cooper, Ettie and Maude: problems of identification in the diaries and letters of John Ruskin, and the letters of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- John Holmes, Ruskin's Windows at the Oxford Museum
- Alan Davis, 'The essence of the beast': Ruskinian naturalism in the animal sculptures of Paul Szeiler
- James S. Dearden, How did John James Ruskin get to the office?
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 19 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
- Review of J. S. Dearden's The Library of John Ruskin [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Stephen Kite's Building Ruskin's Italy [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Keith Hanley & Brian Maidment's (eds.) Persistent Ruskin: studies in influence, assimilation and effect [Jeffrey Richards]
Plus Jeffrey Richards' Tony Hilton, Papal Knight and Sara Atwood's Report on the Symposium at Berkeley, California.
No. 1 - Spring 2013
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Brian Ingram, D. F. Strauss, The Bible, and Ruskin
- Alan Davis, In search of souplesse: Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelite wood-engraved illustration
- Sara Atwood, 'The Lines of nature': Bryan Nash Gill and the Ruskinian Vision
- David S. Ingram, Richard J. Bisgrove and Claire P. Willsdon, Report on Study Day at Broadway Arts Festival
- Chris Pool, Ruskin's Châlet in the Air
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography 2012
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 18 (contributed by Gill Mawby)
- Review of Ian Warrell's Turner's Secret Sketches [Alan Davis]
Volume 8,
No. 2 - Autumn 2012
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Jen Shepherd
Contents
- Stuart Eagles, Ruskin’s ‘very small circle’ of readers in Denmark
- Peter Yeandle, Ruskin and the Christian Socialist Conscience
- James S. Dearden, The Two Misses Harrison
- Gillian Mawby, Ruskin in Barbados
- Sarah Bunney, Two Ruskinians in Venice: William Smart (Thread Manufacturer) and John W. Bunney (Artist)
- Paul Dawson, Hugh Allen: The Next Generation
- Jeffrey Richards, The Good Fairy Ruskin
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 17 (contributed by Stuart Eagles)
- Review of Lars Spuybroek's The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design [Sara Atwood]
- Review of John Ruskin's Praeterita (ed. Francis O’ Gorman) [Andrew Tate]
- Review of Samuel Jones' (ed.) The Enduring Relevance of Octavia Hill (ill. by Quentin Blake) [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Van Akin Burd's How I met Helen Gill Viljoen, Alan Davis' Ruskin and Elgar and Robert Hewison's 'Unto This Last'.
No. 1 - Spring 2012
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Kenwright
Contents
- Clive Wilmer, ‘No such thing as a flower ... no such thing as a man’: John Ruskin’s Response to Darwin
- Alan Davis, ‘Autobiographies of the Heart’: Drawings by Artists of Ruskin’s Circle
- Robin J. Eaglen, The Numismatic Interests of John Ruskin
- Martin Seddon, A bridge by any other name: the search for the ‘Ponte dei Pugni’, Venice
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – January to December 2011
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 16 (contributed by J.A. Hilton)
- Review of Sara Atwood's (ed.) Nineteenth-Century Prose: Special Issue on John Ruskin, Vol. 38 [Francis O’Gorman]
- Review of Cynthia Gamble & Matthieu Pinette's L’œil de Ruskin: L’exemple de la Bourgogne [Edward J. Hughes]
Volume 7
No. 2 - Autumn 2011
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Kenwright
Contents
- Robert Hewison, The Elements of Ruskin: Ruskin Now
- Cynthia Gamble, John Ruskin and a Venetian Episode in the Life of the National Gallery
- Sarah Bunney, Burgess, Bunney, Ruskin, and a Baby - Summer 1869
- Chris Pool, The Other Adèle
- Gill Mawby, Ruskin, Silence, and the Swedish Nightingale
- Bernard Richards, Caravaggio, A Dissenting Victorian Voice
- Review of Bob Blaisdell's (ed.) John Ruskin on genius and Damion Searls' (translator and ed.) Marcel Proust and John Ruskin on reading [Stephen Wildman]
- Review of Paul Dawson's John Thomas Hobbs, Adventurer: From John Ruskin's Valet to Pioneer Australian Settler [Cynthia Gamble]
- Review of Stuart Eagles' Ruskin and Tolstoy (The Ruskin Lecture 2010), and other Guild Pamphlets [Alan Davis]
Plus James S. Dearden's 'They caught the cap off of his head'. What Happened to Charles Richardson? and Mark Frost's The Great Interlaken Cutlery Mystery.
No. 1 - Spring 2011
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor, with help from Stuart Eagles
In memory of Professor Nigel Whiteley.
Contents
- Sara Atwood, Ruskin, Plato and the Education of the Soul
- Claudio Silveira Amaral, Rui Barbosa and John Ruskin: The Policy of Drawing Education in Brazil
- Malcolm Hardman, Praeterita: Writing One's Life as 'Things Omitted'
- Alex Woodall, Liz Mitchell and Sharon Blakey, Mary Mary Quite Contrary - The Mary Greg Collection at Manchester Art Gallery
- Stuart Eagles, Ruskin's Readers: 2. William Marwick and the Ruskin Reading Guild
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - January to December 2010
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 15 (contributed by Brian Ingram)
- Review of Stuart Eagles' After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies Of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920 [Sara Atwood]
- Review of Sara Atwood's Ruskin's Educational Ideals [Francis O'Gorman]
- Review of Merryn Williams' Effie. A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse and Suzanne Fagence Cooper's The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais [Stephen Wildman]
Volume 6
No. 2 - Autumn 2010
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- J.A. Hilton, Ruskinian Catholicism
- Darren Bevin, Ruskin and Heightened Interest in the Alps in the 1850s
- Jennifer Harris, The Legend of John Ruskin in Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada
- Zoë Bennett, 'A fact full of power, or a dream full of meaning'? John Ruskin and the Bible
- Van Akin Burd, Young John Ruskin, his Tutor in Mathematics, John Rowbotham and the Geometric Impossible
- Gillian Mawby, Ruskin and 'Fin de Siècle' Sweden
- Review of Fred Inglis' History Man: The Life of R.G. Collingwood [Brian Ingram]
- Review of Jeffrey Richards & Katherine Newey's John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre [Richard Foulkes]
Plus Heather Birchall's Ruskin and the Facebook Generation.
No. 1 - Spring 2010
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor, with help from Sara Atwood and Ray Haslam
Contents
- Jonathan Glancey, Of Skeletons and Souls
- Andrew Hill, Wise Leaders, Just Rewards: Ruskin's Policy on Pay
- Christopher May, Re-reading 'Unto This Last' Today
- Clive Wilmer, Ruskin, Morris and Medievalism (1996 Mikimoto Lecture)
- Alan Davis, 'Chateau de Blois' and the Law of Help
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - January to December 2009
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 14 (From Percy Fitzgerald, 1895. Memoirs of an Author. London: Bentley, pp.296-9 - contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
- An appreciation of Ian Bliss, Roger Garside, Ray Haslam (eds.) and consultant Sarah Quill's Electronic Edition of Ruskin's Venetian Notebooks (1849-50) [Robert Hewison]
- Review of Robert Hewison's Ruskin on Venice: 'The Paradise of Cities' [Rosella Zorzi]
- Review of Harriet Ritvo's The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism [Stuart Eagles]
- Review of James S. Dearden's Further Facets of Ruskin: Some Bibliographical Studies [Stuart Eagles]
- Review of Matthew Townend's The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: The Norse Medievalism of W.G. Collingwood and his Contemporaries [J.A. Hilton]
- Review of Turner and the Masters, a Tate Britain exhibition (23 September 2009 - 31 January 2010) [Bernard Richards]
Plus Bernard Richards' John Ruskin's 'Life on Mars'.
Volume 5
No. 2 - Autumn 2009
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
In memory of Keith Macklin (1931-2009).
Contents
- Gill Cockram, The Interpretation of History in Ruskin's Social Thought
- William McKeown, Portrait of the Critic as a Young Girl: James Northcote's 1822 Portrait of John Ruskin
- Zoë Bennett, 'By Fors, thus blotted with a double cross': Some Notes Upon the Death of Rose La Touche
- James S. Dearden, Some Green Photographs
- Stuart Eagles, Ruskin's Readers: 1. John Clifford's Ruskin Club at Westbourne Park
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 13 (Ruskin and 'Sixties' book illustration - contributed by Alan Davis)
- Review of Rachel Dickinson's (ed.) John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters [Alan Davis]
- Review of Anselm Heinrich, Kate Newey & Jeffrey Richards' (eds.) Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture [Brian Maidment]
- Review of Ian Bliss, Roger Garside, Ray Haslam (eds.) & consultant Sarah Quill's Electronic Edition of Ruskin's Venetian Notebooks (1849-50) [Francis O'Gorman]
- Review of Julie Sheldon's (ed.) The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake [Ray Haslam]
- Review of Francesca Orestano & Francesca Frigerio's (eds.) Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century [Stephen Wildman]
Plus Stephen Wildman's 'Coeli enarrant saepenumero': New Light on Dark Clouds and Cynthia Gamble's Ruskin v. Palladio: the Architectural Style Wars.
No. 1 - Spring 2009
Editor: Alan Davis, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Debbie Challis, ‘The duty of truth’: the friendship and influence between John Ruskin and Charles Newton
- J.A. Hilton, An American response to Ruskin on Gibbon and Darwin
- Robin Holt, The credit crisis and some gothic relief
- James S. Dearden, Some unresolved Turner-Ruskin problems
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - January to December 2008
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 12 (From Hon. Stephen Coleridge, 1913. Memories by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ch.IX, pp.86-112 - contributed by Stephen Wildman)
Plus Alan Davis' On the Trail of the Shropshire Lads.
Volume 4
No. 3 - Autumn 2008
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Alan Davis, A Note on Ruskin and Cotman
- Sarah Bunney, J.W. Bunney's 'big picture': an update
- Stuart Eagles, J.H. Whitehouse and Boys' Literature
- Stuart Eagles, Ruskin the Worker: Hinksey and the Origins of Ruskin Hall, Oxford
- James S. Dearden, John Ruskin's Pottery
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 11 (A copy of a flyer advertising Croydon's Ruskin Square - contributed by Robert Hewison)
- Review of Cynthia Gamble's John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lad [Bernard Richards]
Plus Stephen Wildman's The Ruskin Library and Research Centre and Ray Haslam & Alan Davis' Keith Hanley: Director of the Ruskin Centre 2000-2008.
No. 2 - Spring 2008
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Alan Davis, Ruskin and Persephone Revisited: The Goddess, the Maiden, and the Bud
- Hiroko Masui, The Study of John Ruskin in Japan: How his Works were used in English Pedagogy before World War II
- Marion McClintock, The evolving journey: the Ruskin Seminars 1990 -
- Stephen Wildman, Illiberal views on art: Ruskin’s advice to Miss Pipe
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - January to December 2007
- Ray Haslam, A Letter from Francesca Alexander
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 10 (Extracts from Augustus J.C. Hare's (1896) The Years with Mother: An Abridgement of the First Three Volumes of The Story of My Life (London: Century) and W.R. Lethaby's (1922) Form in Civilization: Collected Papers on Art & Labour (London: OUP) - contributed by Tony Hilton)
- Review of Robert S. Nelson's Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument [Tony Hilton]
No. 1 - Autumn 2007
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Tony Pinkney, Thomas Shore, Ruskin as a Revolutionary Preacher, Part II
- Sarah Bunney, John W. Bunney's 'big picture' of St Mark's, and the Ruskin-Bunney relationship
- James S. Dearden, A later Ruskin letter?
- Incidentally Ruskin, No. 9 (Extract from Simon Winder, Editor of the Penguin Great Ideas books who gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the series' selection/publishing process - contributed by Alan Harrington)
Volume 3
No. 3 - Summer 2007
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Tony Pinkney, Thomas Shore, Ruskin as a Revolutionary Preacher
- Brian Ingram, Experiments in New Ways of Living and Working
- Review of A. Hêlard's Ruskin et les Cathédrales de la Terre [Chris Pool: Chamonix sees the return of Ruskin]
Plus John George's Ruskin and Watts: Two Victorian Greats and John Coleman's John Ruskin and Anthony Froude - Notes on the Relationship.
No. 1/2 (Joint Issue) - Spring 2007
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lauren Proctor
Contents
- Kei Nijibayashi, Ruskin's Savageness as Romantic: Rousseau's Influence on The Nature of Gothic
- Bernard Richards, Ruskin as a Comic Writer
- Roger Garside, Notes on the Construction of the Library Edition CD
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 8 (Extract from Harrison's (1918) John Ruskin (Macmillan and Co.) - contributed by Tony Hilton)
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography – November 2005 to December 2006
- Review of J.B. Bullen's Byzantium Rediscovered [J.A. Hilton]
Plus Maciek Ulita's Ruskin's Echoes in Poland and Lindsey Walker's Index of Articles from the Ruskin Bulletin 1994-2004.
Volume 2
No. 3 - Summer 2006
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
Contents
- Robert Hewison, The Construction of The Stones of Venice: The Manuscript Evidence (Or, Harry Potter and the Mystery of the Painted Numbers)
- John Illingworth, Fellow Travellers: Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster and the Influence on him of Rickman, Whewell and Ruskin
- Hiroko Masui, A Study of Ruskin’s Utopian Vision
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 6 (Extract from Recollections of Rossetti by Hall Caine (1928), who as a young man lived at Tudor House, Cheyne Walk with Rossetti for a few months in 1881, the last year of Rossetti’s life - contributed by Brian Ingram)
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 7 (Country Diary: Lake District article by Tony Greenbank (1 May 2006), reproduced with the kind permission of The Guardian - contributed by John Illingworth)
No. 2 - Spring 2006
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
Contents
- J.A. Hilton, Ruskin and Smetham: The Critic and the Artist
- Wendy Nakanishi, Locating Ruskin's Letters - Public and Private - in the English Epistolary Tradition
- Alan Davis, Journeys Through the Doors of Perception: John Ruskin and William Blake
- Sara Atwood, "Too peculiar to be popular": Ruskinian Pedagogy, Winnington and The Ethics of the Dust
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 5 (Extract from an item that was written c. 1950 by J.B. Morton for his Beachcomber column in the Daily Express - contributed by John Illingworth)
No. 1 - Autumn 2005
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
Contents
- Stuart Eagles, ‘A Higher, Purer, Truer Life for the People’: Ruskin and the Beginnings of Labour Representation
- Ray Haslam, Ruskin, Drawing and the Argument of the Lens
- Sarah Bunney, Rose, Three ‘Buns’ and a Missing Portrait
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - October 2004 to October 2005
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 4 (Extract from Through the Stage Doors, the 1958 autobiography of playwright Sydney Blow whose brother, the architect Detmar Blow, accompanied Ruskin on his French and Italian tour in 1888 - contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
Volume 1
No. 3 - Summer 2005
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
Contents
- Pascal Debout, Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds: John Ruskin's Evangelical Programme for a Truly Christian Nation
- James S. Dearden, Ruskin and St. Ursula's Disappearing Dog
- J.A. Hilton, Ruskin's Anglo-Saxonism: Constructing and Deconstructing The Pleasures of England
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 3 (Extract from Ford Madox Hueffer/Ford's Rossetti: A Critical Essay on his Art - contributed by Brian Ingram)
- Review of Juliet Kinchin & Paul Stirton's Is Mr Ruskin Living too Long? Selected Writings of E.W. Godwin on Victorian Architecture, Design and Culture [Jeffrey Richards]
No. 2 - Spring 2005
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
Contents
- Alan Davis, ‘What I intended the plates to be’: Ruskin’s Etchings for The Seven Lamps of Architecture
- Chris Pool, Ruskin's Houses at Mornex
- Gillian Mawby, Some Observations on an Annotated Edition of John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture in the Archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin in the Oxford DNB
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 2 (Extract from the painter Henry Holiday's (1914) Reminiscences of my Life (Heinemann) - contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
Plus Emma Barlet's Ruskin For All, Malcolm Hardman's Cataloguing Ruskin’s Library and Other Challenges: James S. Dearden in Conversation with the Ruskin Society and David Peacock's The Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood.
No. 1 - Autumn 2004
Editor: Brian Ingram, Managing Editor: Lindsey Walker
In memory of John Evans.
Contents
- Brian Ingram, Editorial
- Philip Davies, The Importance of Rudeness (The Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture 2003)
- Ross Eddington, John Ruskin's Classical Education
- Ruskin Incidentally, No. 1 (Extract from Lillie Langtry's (1925) The Days I Knew (Duckworth) - contributed by Jeffrey Richards)
- Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Bibliography - 2003 to September 2004
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