Evidence: | "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford, having read the beginning of Ruskin's Cestus of Aglaia (his papers on Art) commented to a friend." |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Probably Britain, but the author did travel to Europe on extended tours | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | painter |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Probably Britain, but the author did travel to Europe on extended tours |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Ruskin |
Title: | Cestus of Aglaia |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1865 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3564 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Ruskin | |
Editor: | Virginia Surtees | |
Title: | Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton. | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 55 | |
Additional comments: | From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford, having read the beginning of Ruskin's Cestus of Aglaia (his papers on Art) commented to a friend." |
Citation: | John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton. (London, 1972), p. 55, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3564, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
The editor gives the following source for this information: Vol III, p. 256. The Story of Two Noble Lives, being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Augustus J. C. Hare, 3 vols, London, George Allen, 1893. |
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