TY - BOOK ID - 85465872 TI - Ruskin and the English Lakes PY - 1901 SN - 1139093797 1108036007 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 KW - Lake District (England) KW - Great Britain KW - Art KW - History KW - Biography & Autobiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465872 AB - John Ruskin (1819-1900), the influential Victorian art critic and social theorist, lived in the Lake District for nearly 30 years. This biographical study, first published in 1901, focuses on the significance of the region in Ruskin's life and art. It begins with his first visit as a five-year-old, when he became ''a dedicated spirit' to the beauty and the wonders of Nature', and ends with accounts of his funeral and memorial at Coniston. It describes his commitment to the local people and their traditional crafts, and his relationship with the poet Wordsworth. The author, H. D. Rawnsley (1851-1920), was a clergyman, conservationist and keen art lover based in the Lake District who had been personally tutored by Ruskin and who was one of the founders, in 1884, of the heritage organisation that became the National Trust. ER -