Record Number: 3564
Reading Experience:
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."
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:Probably Britain, but the author did travel to Europe on extended tours
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Cestus of Aglaia
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1865
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3564
Source: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/RED/record_details.php?id=3564, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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.
