| 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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| 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) |
n/a |
| 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: 19 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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