Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations”
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular attention to textiles in the opening and closing of Fors Clavigera (1871-1885), and highlighting educational texts by two women cited there (Kate Stanley and Millicent Garrett Fawcett), this paper argues...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6710 |