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A Pre-Raphaelite Circle
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'Tennyson and Holman Hunt, Carlyles, Rossettis and any number of celebrated Trevelyans people these pages; and Mr Trevelyan's handling of their comings and goings is masterly.' Hilary Spurling
Pauline Trevelyan, friend and patroness of so many in the Pre-Raphaelite circle, has long been an intriguing figure to scholars of that period. The daughter of a poor parson, she was married to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, a landowner-cum-scientist twenty years her senior and her opposite in character. Herself an artist, writer and critic, she spotted Swinburne's talents when he was still a schoolboy, and commissioned important works from Rossetti, Woolner and others. From her immense correspondence we learn much about John Ruskin.
A Pre-Raphaelite Circle reproduces a late-unearthed letter from Ruskin that is revelatory in respect of his marriage. For this and many other reasons it is a crucial work of reference for students of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- CONTENTS
- PLATES
- A LETTER FROM RUSKIN
- Chapter One: THE JERMYNS
- Chapter Two: THE TREVELYANS
- Chapter Three: NEUCHÂTEL, ATHENS, LISBON
- Chapter Four: FRIENDSHIP WITH THE RUSKINS
- Chapter Five: OBEDIENCE TO DR. SIMPSON
- Chapter Six: A FATEFUL VISIT
- Chapter Seven: GLENFINLAS
- Chapter Eight: THE SCANDAL
- Chapter Nine: ENTER SCOTUS
- Chapter Ten: THE CIRCLE GROWS
- Chapter Eleven: POETS AND LOVE FRUSTRATED
- Chapter Twelve: THE LIONS AND THE LIONIZED
- Chapter Thirteen: SACRED AND PROFANE
- Chapter Fourteen: A HOUSE AND ITS INHERITANCE
- Chapter Fifteen: TEMPTED TO IN-CONSTANCY
- Chapter Sixteen: TROUBLE WITH ALGERNON
- Chapter Seventeen: THAT LOVING, BRIGHT, FAITHFUL FRIEND
- Chapter Eighteen: HELD IN PERPETUITY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SOURCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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