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  • Buoyed up by a treasure-trove of unpublished letters and journals, Ms. Cooper has no trouble in establishing the liveliness of her subject's personality, her centrality to Millais's paintings and her resourcefulness when ganged up on by the Ruskins.

    A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

  • Buoyed up by a treasure-trove of unpublished letters and journals, Ms. Cooper has no trouble in establishing the liveliness of her subject's personality, her centrality to Millais's paintings and her resourcefulness when ganged up on by the Ruskins.

    A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

  • The Ruskins and the Grays had known each other for years.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • When her younger sisters came down with scarlet fever, the Ruskins kept Effie until the contagion had passed.

    Pre-Raphaelites in Love: Millias, Effie Gray and John Ruskin Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • Two lawyers visited the home of the Ruskins and presented John with the citation, and a packet from Effie containing her keys, her wedding ring, and a letter explaining her actions.

    Pre-Raphaelites in Love: Millias, Effie Gray and John Ruskin Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • When her younger sisters came down with scarlet fever, the Ruskins kept Effie until the contagion had passed.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • The Ruskins and the Grays had known each other for years.

    Pre-Raphaelites in Love: Millias, Effie Gray and John Ruskin Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • Two lawyers visited the home of the Ruskins and presented John with the citation, and a packet from Effie containing her keys, her wedding ring, and a letter explaining her actions.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • It is unlikely there will be any smoke-disgorging steam railway trains in Utopia, they are already doomed on earth, already threatened with that obsolescence that will endear them to the Ruskins of to-morrow, but

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • However, I am disappointed, with you, that the future Ruskins and Elie Faures and other anatomists of art will have to look at your windows instead of the mail hall.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

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