The Professor: Arthur Severn's Memoir Of John Ruskin Signed By The Editor
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Arthur was the younger son of the painter Joseph Severn, now best remembered as having been with Keats in Rome when the poet died in 1820. He exhibited landscape watercolours, and has been described as 'essentially a water, sun and sky painter'. In 1871 he married Joan Agnew, a cousin of the Ruskins, who had acted as companion to Ruskin's mother, who died in that year. When Ruskin then moved from Denmark Hill, in South London, to the Lake District, the Severns accompanied him and remained part of the household until his death. Jim Dearden has spent a lifetime working with the great legacy of John Ruskin, from his schooldays at Bembridge under the leading Ruskin collector, John Howard Whitehouse, to his recent, magisterial study, 'The Library of John Ruskin'. He returned to his alma mater and became curator of the Ruskin Galleries there; he has been a dedicated Companion, Director and Master of Ruskin's Guild of St George; and he has written numerous articles on Ruskin and related topics. In Howard Hull's words, Jim has 'single-handedly done more for the revival of interest in Ruskin than anyone else alive' - and this not just by his scholarship and stewardship of the legacy, but also his wholehearted and famously generous engagement with the work of others. "As Curator of the Whitehouse collection at Bembridge School, as convenor of the historic Brantwood Conference widely thought to have launched the Ruskin revival, as a Guild Director for 35 years, as author of many books and advisor to three generations of Ruskin scholars, as bibliographer and book collector, James Dearden made a uniquely rich contribution to the recovery and enthusiastic pursuit of all things Ruskinian. It helped that he was a modest, unselfish man, friendly, convivial and an engaging raconteur. There can be no Ruskinians who are not, directly or indirectly, in his debt" (Clive Wilmer). Signed by the editor (see image 2).
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