Libraries containing Original Documents (including abbreviations used in the text)
Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA. (BPL)
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Charles Roberts Autograph Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (Houghton)
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. (HL)
Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York. (PML)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (RL).
Ruskin’s Works
Diaries — The Diaries of John Ruskin, Ed. Joan Evans and J. Howard Whitehouse. 3 vols. Oxford, UK: Oxford University, 1958.
LE — The Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 39 vols. London: George Allen, 1903-12.
Manuscript Collection
VP—The Helen Gill Viljoen Papers, Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Published Works
Ballantyne, Andrew. John Ruskin . London: Reaktion, 2015.
Barnes, David. “John Ruskin can help us Rail against the Dehumanizing Power of Capitalism,” The Guardian, 6 November 2011.
Batchelor, John. John Ruskin: A Life. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000.
Bem, Sandra and Daryl Bem, Homogenizing the American Woman: The Power of an Unconscious Ideology. Pittsford, PA: Know, 1972.
Bering, Jesse. “Pedophiles, Hebephiles, and Ephebophiles, Oh My: Erotic Age Orientation.” Scientific American, 1 July 2009.
Birch, Dinah. “Ruskin’s Womanly Mind.” Essays in Criticism, Vol. 38: 308-324.
Blanchard, Ray. “The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior. Web. 31 December 2018.
Bradley, J. L., ed. The Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 1964.
Bradley, J. L. and Ian Ousby, eds. The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 1987.
Brownell, Robert. Marriage of Inconvenience. London: Pallas Athene, 2013.
Burd, Van Akin, ed. The Winnington Letters of John Ruskin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1969.
Burd, Van Akin, ed. The Ruskin Family Letters (2 vols.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1973.
Burd, Van Akin. John Ruskin and Rose La Touche. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
Burd, Van Akin. Christmas Story: John Ruskin’s Venetian Letters of 1876-77. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware, 1990.
Burd, Van Akin. “Ruskin on his Sexuality: A Lost Source,” Philological Quarterly, Fall 2007: 433-438.
Burd, Van Akin. “Ruskin and his ‘Good Master’: William Buckland,” Victorian Literature and Culture, 2008: 36: 299-315.
Collingwood, W. G. The Life and Works of John Ruskin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893.
Collingwood, W. G. Ruskin Relics. New York: Crowell, 1904.
Cook, E. T. Studies in Ruskin.. London: George Allen, 1889.
Cook, E. T. The Life of John Ruskin. 2 vols. London: George Allen, 1911.
Cunningham, Valentine. “A Victorian Renaissance Man.” New York Times Book Review. 14 May 2000.
Davis, Alan. “Review of John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. Ed. Rachel Dickinson,” Ruskin Review and Bulletin, 5, 2 (Autumn, 2009): 52-57.
Dawson, John. “Four Pence for the Beggar Men: Glimpses of John Ruskin in the Logbooks of the Coniston Schools.” Privately printed, 1994.
Dearden, James S. Ruskin, Bembridge, and Brantwood: The Growth of the Whitehouse Collection. Staffordshire, UK: Ryburn Press, Keele University, 1994.
Dearden, James S. “The Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin.” The Book Collector, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring, 1995).
DeBruyn, John. “John Ruskin and Sir Arthur Helps,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University of Manchester. 59 (September, 1977).
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed. (DSM-5) Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
Dickinson, Rachel. John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. London: Legenda, 2009.
Drew, Mary (Gladstone). Acton, Gladstone, and Others. London: Nisbet, 1924.
Ellis, Havelock. Studies in the Psychology of Sex (5 vols.). New York: Random House, 1897.
Gardiner, A. G. The Life of Sir William Harcourt. London: Cassell, 1923.
Goodspeed, Charles E. Yankee Bookseller. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
Frances, Allen. “DSM-5 Tries to Sneak in Hebephilia,” Psychology Today. 14 December 2011. Web.
Frost, Mark. The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St. George. London: Anthem, 2014.
Goring, Katie. “The Friends of Living Creatures and John Ruskin.” Fortnightly Review 88 (1907): Part One (Sept. 2), 373-90; Part Two (Oct. 1), 592-96.
Greene, Richard. “Is Pedophilia a Mental Disorder?” Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (December 2002).
Harris, Anthony. “‘Why have our Little Girls Large Shoes?’: Ruskin and The Guild of St. George.” Sheffield, UK: The Guild of St. George, 1985. (Reprint: 2011).
Hayman, John. “John Ruskin’s Hortus Inclusus: The Manuscript Sources and Publication History,” Huntington Quarterly. 52.3 (Summer 1989): 363-387.
Hewison, Robert, et al. Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites. London: Tate, 2000.
Hilton, Tim. John Ruskin: The Early Years. New Haven: Yale University, 1985.
Hilton, Tim. John Ruskin: The Later Years. New Haven: Yale University, 2000.
Howitt, Dennis. Paedophiles and Sexual Offences against Children. Chichester, UK: John Wiley, 1995.
Hunt, John Dixon. The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin. New York: Viking, 1982.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say: The Flurried Years. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1926
Hunt, Violet. “Ruskin as a Guide to Youth.” Westminster Gazette, 3 February 1900.
Kemp, Wolfgang. The Desire of My Eyes: The Life and Work of John Ruskin. New York: Ferrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990.
Lloyd, Jennifer M. “Raising Lilies: Ruskin and Women.” Journal of British Studies. 34 (1995): 325-350.
Lutyens, Mary. Effie in Venice: Her Picture of Society and Life with John Ruskin, 1840-52. London: John Murray, 1965.
Lutyens, Mary. The Ruskins and the Grays. London: John Murray, 1972.
Masterman, Lucy, ed. Mary Gladstone: Her Diaries and Letters. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1930.
March-Phillips, L. and B. C., Ed. Some Hawarden Letters Written to Mrs. Drew Before and After her Marriage. London: Nisbet, 1917.
McKeown, William. The Role of Venetian Renaissance Painting in John Ruskin’s Utopian Theories. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2011.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
Millet, Kate. “The Debate over Women: Ruskin versus Mill.” Victorian Studies, 14 (November 1970): 63-82.
Morris, Charles R. The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.
Morris, William, ed. The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter of “The Stones of Venice”. New York: Garland, 1977 (reprint). Original: Kelmscott Press, UK, 1892.
O’Gorman, Francis. “Manliness and the History of Ruskin in Love: Writing on Ruskin’s Masculinity from W. G. Collingwood to Kate Millet.” In: Dinah Birch and Francis O’Gorman, eds.: Ruskin and Gender. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 10-28.
O’Gorman, Francis. “Review of Sara Atwood (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Prose. Special Issue: John Ruskin.” Ruskin Review and Bulletin, 8, 1 (Spring 2012): 68-72.
Pierce, Joanna Tapp. ”From Garden to Gardiner: The Cultivation of Little Girls in Carroll’s Alice Books and Ruskin’s ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’.” Women’s Studies. 29 (2000): 741-61.
Robson, Catherine. Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. Princeton: Princeton University, 2001.
Rose, Phyllis. “Ruskin’s Power,” The American Scholar 72, No. 2 (2003): 87-95.
Ruskin, John. Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood to the Garden. Orpington, UK: George Allen, 1888.
Ryan, William. Blaming the Victim. New York: Pantheon, 1971.
Sawyer, Paul. Ruskin’s Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1985. [full text in the Victorian Web]
Scott, Edith Hope. Ruskin’s Guild of St. George. London: Methuen, 1931.
Searle, Adrian. “A Crazy, Mixed-up Victorian.” The Guardian. 13 March 2000.
Seto, Michael C. Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2008.
Shaw, George Bernard. Ruskin’s Politics (A Ruskin Centenary Address). Oxford: Oxford University, 1919.
Simpson, Marc. “The Dream of the Dragon: Ruskin’s Serpent Imagery.” In John Dixon Hunt and Faith M. Holland, eds. The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin. Manchester, UK: Manchester University, 1982: 21-43.
Smetham, James. The Letters of James Smetham. London: Macmillan, 1891
Smith, Margaret. The Letters of Charlotte Bronte. 2 vols. Oxford, UK: Oxford University, 2000.
Sonstroem, David. “Millet versus Ruskin: A Defense of Ruskin’s ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’.” Victorian Studies. 20, No. 3, (Spring 1977): 283-297.
Spates, James L. The Imperfect Round: Helen Gill Viljoen’s Life of Ruskin. Geneva, NY: Long View, 2005.
Spates, James L. “John Ruskin’s Dark Star: New Lights on his Life based on the Unpublished Biographic Materials and Research of Helen Gill Viljoen.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 82.1 (Spring, 2000): 131-91.
Spates, James L. “Ruskin’s Dark Night of the Soul: A Reconsideration of his Mental Illness and the Importance of Accurate Diagnosis for Interpreting his Life Story.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. 18 N.S. (Spring, 2009): 18-58.
Spates, James L. “Ruskin — The Forgotten Legacy in America.” In Peter Accardo and R. Dyke Benjamin, eds. Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Idea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Spates, James L. and Van Akin Burd. “Ruskin in Milan, 1862: A Chapter from Helen Gill Viljoen’s Unpublished Biography of John Ruskin.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 13 (New Series), Fall, 2004: 17-62.
Spence, Margaret. Dearest Mama Talbot: A Selection of Letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Fanny Talbot. London: George Allen, 1966.
Surtees, Virginia, ed. Sublime and Instructive: Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden, and Ellen Heaton. London: Michael Joseph, 1972.
Surtees, Virginia, Ed. Reflections of a Friendship: John Ruskin’s Letters to Pauline Trevelyan, 1848-1866. London: George Allen, 1979.
Swett, Lucia Gray, ed. John Ruskin’s Letters to Francesca and Memoirs of the Alexanders. Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1931.
Tolstoy, Leo. N. Complete Collected Works. Soviet Jubilee Edition. Moscow, 1928-1958.
Unwin, Rayner, ed. The Gulf of Years: Letters from John Ruskin to Kathleen Olander. London: George Allen, 1953.
Vane, Miranda, “Ruskin Dines Out.” LRG Blog, 9 August 2017.
Viljoen, Helen Gill. Ruskin’s Scottish Heritage: A Prelude. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1956.
Viljoen, Helen Gill. The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1971.
Webling, Peggy. Peggy: The Story of One Score Years and Ten. London: Hutchinson, 1924.
Weltman, Sharon. Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education. Columbus: University of Ohio, 2007.
Weltman, Sharon. “Sexuality and Gender.” The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin. Ed. Francis O’Gorman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Wilson, Olive. My Dearest Dora: Letters to Dora Livesey, her Family, and Friends, 1860-1900, from John Ruskin. Privately Printed. n.d.
Woolf, Virginia. The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. New York: Mariner, 1950.
Wyndham, G. Letters of M.G. and H. G. to John Ruskin. New York: Harper, 1903.
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