| Evidence: | '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description.' (Payne coll.)" |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1856 and 30 Jun 1856 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Britain, but the reader did travel to Europe on extended tours | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Ellen Heaton |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 18 Nov 1816 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Woman with private means, art collector |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Probably Britain, but the reader 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: | Modern Painters IV |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First edition published 1856 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 3671 | |
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| 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: | 187 | |
| Additional comments: | From the editor's footnote, referring to Ellen Heaton travelling to mainland Europe in the summer of 1856: "Mindful of Ruskin's (by now famous) descriptive passage in the fourth volume of Modern Painters, published two months earlier, she had stopped at Calais on her way and inspected the church tower (The Works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, ed. E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 Volumes, London, George Allen, 1903-1912, Vol 6, p. 11). Ellen Heaton stopped at Calais on her way to Switzerland, which she reached in August 1856. |
| 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. 187, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3671, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The letter quoted is from the collection of unpublished letters and diaries of Dr John Heaton, belonging to Mr and Mrs Brian Payne. |
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