BIB_ID
311800
Accession number
MA 7788.15
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to December 1862, however, there is another note, in a different hand, at the top of the letter saying "surely a wrong date, with letter misnumbered? J.R. was in Mornex in December 1862."
With a penciled notation on p. 1 by Helen Gill Viljoen dating the letter to December 1862, however, there is another note, in a different hand, at the top of the letter saying "surely a wrong date, with letter misnumbered? J.R. was in Mornex in December 1862."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Asking her to tell her husband that "Eve's speech in Milton" [Paradise Lost] is--well-- "a piece of foul-dull-dim, degraded--disgusting--boy's bombast.....viciously and unspeakably inconceiving of any womanhood or even distantest capacity of womanhood in a Rib. It's an official monstrosity--it's an Eve with blood of red tape and flesh of blue foolscap paste not made even into paper. It's a miserable round-headed stony hearted--hollow--hateful--horrible--spectre of a Female Formalism. There aren't words dead enough nor clothes enough to dress it with."
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