John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti.

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Anne Longmuir is Professor of English at Kansas State University. She completed her Ph.D. on the fiction of Don DeLillo at the University of Edinburgh and specialises in British Victorian Literature and Contemporary American Fiction. She has published articles and book chapters on John Ruskin, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Brontë, Don DeLillo, and J. M. Coetzee. She co-edited Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2016) with Lee Behlman (Montclair State University). She is a recipient of the Sassoon Fellowship from the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford.

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

2 My verses catch fire from you: Poetry, Italy, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3 The truth of infinite value: Realism, Religion, and George Eliot

4 A Friendship of Mutual Esteem: Correspondence, Consumption, and Elizabeth Gaskell

5 There Is No Friend Like a Brother?: Art, Women, and the Rossettis

6 Conclusion