Companion and passionate Ruskinian George Landow died on 31st May [2023] at his home in the United States. We send our sincere condolences to his widow Ruth and their family and friends. Ruth kindly shared George's obituary.
Among his many achievements, George was the founder of The Victorian Web, an incredible online resource containing a wide range of information and scholarship, including many pages on Ruskin. His fellow American Companion Jim Spates shares a memory: :He was, as I recall, the keynote speaker at a John Ruskin conference at the recently opened Ruskin Library in 2000. During his talk, and at other times during the conference, he announced that he was creating the Victorian Web, emphasizing that a new phase of world communication was aborning. We all thought it a bit 'outré.' As we all now know, we were wrong while he was spot on. George deserves much credit and applause for his foresight, which always included his sincere and abiding devotion to Ruskin. I emphasize that his section on Ruskin on the Victorian Web is terrific and worthy of serious examination by anyone interested in Ruskin and his work."
Created 25 July 2023