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...LETTERS OF JOHN RUSKIN TO LORD AND LADY MOUNT-TEMPLE, edited by John Lewis Bradley. 399 pages. Ohio State University Press...
...John Ruskin was a critic of great ability and prodigious output. He was also a precocious child who remained until middle age the captive of wealthy, doting parents. An early Ruskin biographer wrote that shortly before her death in 1871, when his mother was nearly 90 and Ruskin 52, she still "ruled her son and her household with inexorable kindness...
...results of this kindness were known to Ruskin's friends, but were suppressed by most biographers and not generally known until the publication in 1947 of letters about Ruskin's marriage to Effie Gray. The marriage, it seemed, had been arranged by Ruskin's and the girl's parents. According to Effie, on the wedding night Ruskin, who was 29, told his bride that sexual intercourse was irreligious and that, at 20, she was too young to consummate a marriage. She must wait five years, he said. She waited, showing "restiveness," which Ruskin said he feared...
...present volume of letters charts the remainder and the darker portions of Ruskin's desperate sexual journey. Four years after the annulment Ruskin met Rosie La Touche, the pretty daughter of an Irish banker whose wife admired Ruskin's work. He fell deeply in love with Rosie, who seems to have returned as much affection as could be expected of a girl her age-she had just turned ten. After Ruskin mooned about for four years, the La Touches became alarmed and forbade him to see Rosie. To his friend and confidante, Lady Mount-Temple, he wrote later...
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW and OLD MASTERS-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. A double-feature of drawing: Surrealist Tchelitchew's figures and landscapes, plus the expertise of Oldtimers Piranesi, Marco Ricci, Ruskin and others. The earliest work is a 15th century miniature of a saint by Florentine Francesco Antonio del Cherico, a small gem in opaque pink, blue and gold. Through...