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185: How to Learn [Or, Discovering the (hitherto unsuspected) Connections between Ruskin’s Publisher, George Allen, Little Agnes Stalker, and those very Mysterious Bees]

Posted on June 21, 2020 by jimspates

Good Folks, That Ruskin was a genius of the first rank we know. But he was wise enough to know that what he knew had only come in largest measure from a determination to do whatever was needed to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Nature, Ruskin's Life | Tagged Agnes Stalker, Allen and Unwin, Animal Biography, Brantwood, Bumble Bee, Cassel Petter and Galpin, Chaucer, D. G. Rossetti, F. D. Maurice, Fors Clavigera, Fors Clavigera Letter 50, Fors Clavigera Letter 51, George Allen, Herne Hill, Humble Bee, J. m. w. Turner, John Ruskin, Lancaster University, Latham Ormerod, Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin, Mason Bee, National Gallery London, Orpington, Paul Dawson, Pre-Raphaelites, Professor Ruskin, Ruskin, Ruskin Library, Ruskin's Dog Maude, Smith Elder, The Insect World, The Old Man of Coniston, The Ruskin, The Workingmen's College, Thomas Hughes, Turner's "Gift to the Nation', w. g. collingwood, William Bingley, Wood-piercing Bee | 2 Comments
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