
John RuskinEnglish, 1819–1900May one see it?
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
1834–1900 · Workplace
Great Britain
1871–1900
Post: master
1871–1900 · Membership
Guild of St George
1880s
The May Queen festival at Whitelands College
In the 1880s Ruskin becomes involved with Whitelands College, a training college for teachers, where he institutes a May Queen festival that endures today.
1885–1889
The autobiography “Praeterita”
In his autobiography “Praeterita” (1885–89) Ruskin paints his childhood as lonelier and more joyless than it really was: he did have few friends of his own age, but it was not as bleak as he later said.