Clavigera

In 1871 Ruskin, in Fors Clavigera a series of letters addressed to British workmen, discussed businessmen commuting between Bakewell and Buxton in the name of what the Times calls 'Railway Enterprise'.

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'Munera Pulveris' (The Rewards of the Dust -- an attack on materialistic political economy), and 'Fors Clavigera' (Fortune the Key-Bearer), the latter a series of letters to workingmen extending over many years.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

No one can fail from those letters to get a more intimate picture of the author of _Modern Painters_ than could ever be imagined out of that work itself, and out of the rest of his works besides, not excepting the wonderful _Fors Clavigera_; and not only a more intimate, but a different picture, touched with greater whimsicality, and with infinite sadness, too.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

His “Fors Clavigera” is a continuation of these letters, but written at a time when other work and ill health broke in upon his strength.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

Ruskin, who had added to his other work the additional labour of “Fors Clavigera,” went for a summer's change to Matlock.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

On January 1st, 1871, was issued a small pamphlet, headed “Fors Clavigera,” in the form of a letter to the working men and labourers of England, dated from Denmark Hill, and signed “John Ruskin.”

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

Here and there in the Socialist movement workmen turned up who had read Fors Clavigera or Unto This

The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

Clavigera_; earlier, while at work on _The S.ones of Venice_, he had lived, as we have seen, near S. Zobenigo.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

Clavigera_ -- and these were, I imagine, subjected to less critical examination by their author before they saw the light than any of his writings -- is the following summary, which it may be interesting to read here.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

The reply was, "Buy Number 5 of _Fors Clavigera_ for 1871, which will give you your answer."

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903