Ruskin and Gender

DINAH BIRCH is Stirling Boyd Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Trinity College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in English. She has recently edited a selection from Ruskin's Fors Clavigera and Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern. - FRANCES O'GORMAN is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on Ruskin, including John Ruskin and Late Ruskin: New Contexts.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Textual Note Introduction: D.Birch & F.O'Gorman Manliness and The History of Ruskin In Love: Writing Ruskin's Masculinity From W.G. Collingwood to Kate Millett; F.O'Gorman The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's Lost Jewels ; C.Robson The Foxglove and the Rose: Ruskin's Involute of Childhood; L.Smith Ruskin, Gautier, and the Feminization of Venice; J.B. Bullen The Feminist Origins of 'Of Queens' Gardens'; L.H.Peterson Ruskin's Womanly Mind ; D.Birch 'What Teachers Do You Give Your Girls'? Ruskin and Women's Education; D.Birch 'Any Day That You're a Good Boy': Ruskin's Patronage, Rossetti's Expectations; J.Bristow Pantomime Truth and Gender Performance: John Ruskin on Theatre; S.A.Weltman Images of Proustian Inversion from Ruskin; E.Eells Selected Bibliography Index