Cynthia Gamble is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter. A graduate of the Université de Grenoble and London University, Cynthia enjoys working in a Franco-British environment and writes and lectures extensively on Marcel Proust and John Ruskin. She is the author of several books including Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation (2002), and Voix entrelacées de Proust et de Ruskin (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021), and co-author with Matthieu Pinette of Ruskin-Turner. Dessins et voyages en Picardie romantique (2003); L’Œil de Ruskin: l’exemple de la Bourgogne (2011); and most recently Ruskin, Proust et la Normandie: aux sources de la ‘Recherche’ which was one of the ten most widely read books published by Classiques Garnier in 2022. Cynthia has also contributed two e-books to the Victorian Web: John Ruskin and his Oxford Tutor, Osborne Gordon: From Broseley, Shropshire, to Easthampstead, Berkshire, and Henry James and the Ruined Abbeys of Shropshire. She is a Membre de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen.
However, not all of Cynthia’s attention is focussed on Proust and Ruskin! When the opportunity arose to have unique access to an unpublished archive of mainly nineteenth-century materials (letters, photographs, drawings, paintings) relating to Wenlock Abbey in Shropshire, she seized the moment, produced a detailed inventory, and wrote a fascinating book Wenlock Abbey 1857-1919: A Shropshire Country House and the Milnes Gaskell Family (2015).The painting of one member of the Milnes Gaskell family has recently been acquired by The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, along with copies of Cynthia’s book.
Created 1 August 2010
Last updated 6 August 2023