John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. Ed. Rachel Dickinson

When the great Whitehouse Collection of Ruskin material was moved from Bem - bridge on the Isle of Wight to the purpose-built Ruskin Library at Lancaster University in 1998, it soon became clear that the research group associated with the Ruskin Centre had three major editorial tasks ahead of it (as well as numerous other projects associated with the drawings and smaller caches of manuscripts). First, there is the remarkable collection of notebooks associated with the making of The Stones of Venice, of which a digital edition has already been created; secondly, the ‘diary notebooks’ of Ruskin, which were poorly edited in three deceptively solid-looking volumes from Clarendon many years ago, and that cry out for thorough editing; and thirdly, the three thousand or so uncatalogued and unpublished letters from Ruskin to his cousin Joan, edited highlights of which are now available in this new book by Rachel Dickinson, a former doctoral student and later Research Associate of the Centre at Lancaster.

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