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Chronological Table

1819	John Ruskin born 54 Hunter Street, London (8 February).
1825	First Continental tour.
1826	Begins writing verse. Reads Bible, under mothers aegis, continuously, and commences lifelong reading of Homer and Scott.
1830	First tour of the Lake District. First publication, a poem On Skiddaw and Derwent Water, in the Spiritual Times.
1831	Attends a school conducted by the Reverend Thomas Dale. Takes drawing lessons.
1832	Receives gift of Samuel Rogerss Italy, illustrated by Turner.
1834	First prose work published on the colour of the waters of the Rhine in Loudons Magazine of Natural History.
1835	Visits Venice for the first time.
1836	Falls in love with Adele Domecq, daughter of one of his fathers partners in the sherry trade. Writes, but does not publish, a reply to Blackwoods criticism of Turner. Matriculates as a gentleman-commoner at Christ Church, Oxford.
18371838		Publishes The Poetry of Architecture in the Architectural Magazine.
1839	Wins Newdigate Prize for poetry. Meets Wordsworth.
1840	Receives, on twenty-first birthday, a private income of 200 per annum and Turners Winchelsea. Leaves Oxford due to illness. In Rome meets Georgiana Tollemache (later Lady Mount-Temple), his main confidante over his love for Rose La Touche.
1841	Writes King of the Golden River for Euphemia (Effie) Chalmers Gray whom he later marries.
1842	Receives double fourth at Oxford
1843	Publishes Modern Painters I.
1846	Publishes Modern Painters II.
1847	Experiences an unreturned affection for Charlotte Lockhart, daughter of Scotts biographer.
1848	On 10 April marries Effie Gray.
1849	Publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
1850	Publishes his collected poems.
1851	Publishes The Stones of Venice I, Pre-Raphaelitism and Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds. Meets the young Millais. Friendship with Carlyle ripens. Turner dies in December.
1853	Publishes The Stones of Venice II, III. Summer holiday in Scotland with Effie, Millais and latters brother. Lectures in Edinburgh.
1854	Annulment of his marriage to Effie who subsequently marries Millais. Defends Pre-Raphaelites in letters to The Times. Teaches at Working Mens College. Develops friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and at about this time makes acquaintance of his brother, William Michael Rossetti, as well.
1855	Initiates Academy Notes. Meets Tennyson.
1856	Publishes Modern Painters, III, IV, and The Harbours of England, a commentary on marine drawings which were produced by Turner and Thomas Lupton the engraver. Meets Charles Eliot Norton.
1857	Publishes The Elements of Drawing (addressed to My dear Reader) and The Political Economy of Art (lectures). Over the next twenty years is to lecture a great deal.
1858	Agrees to give drawing lessons to Rose and Emily La Touche. Spiritual crisis in Turin.
1859	Publishes The Elements of Perspective and The Two Paths, the latter a series of lectures. Visits Miss Bells school at Winnington for the first time.
1860	Publishes Modern Painters V. Unto this Last serialized in Cornhill Magazine (August November).
1862	Publishes Essays on Political Economy in Frasers Magazine (June 1862 April 1863): publication suspended. Revised, the essays appear in 1872 as Munera Pulveris.
1864	Death of his father, John James Ruskin. Delivers more lectures including Traffic and Of Kings Treasuries.
1865	Publishes Sesame and Lilies (lectures).
1866	Publishes The Crown of Wild Olive (lectures); also The Ethics of the Dust, a series of dialogues originating in Winnington. Emotionally distraught over his relations with Rose La Touche.
1867	Publishes Time and Tide, by Weare and Tynef, an Epistolary series devoted to social questions. Experiences giddiness and slightly impaired vision.
1868	A time of extreme emotional difficulty in regard to Rose La Touche.
1869	Publishes The Queen of the Air.
1870	Delivers, in February, his inaugural lecture at Oxford, as first Slade Professor of Fine Art, which address forms part of the Lectures on Art offered in the Hilary Term.
1871	Begins, in January, the epistolary series, Fors Clavigera, which appear monthly until 1878 and intermittently thereafter. Seriously ill at Matlock. Purchases Brantwood in the Lake District. Develops interest in the St Georges Fund for social amelioration. Margaret Ruskin, his mother, dies aged 90.
1872	Publishes two series of Oxford lectures: Aratra Penetelici (on sculpture) and The Eagles Nest (on science and art).
1873	Delivers some ornithological lectures, mainly at Oxford, which are ultimately published as Loves Meinie. Ten further lectures, on Tuscan art, later appear as Val d Arno.
1874	Modification of his spiritual views.
1875	Begins part-publication of Mornings in Florence. Initiates Proserpine, a botanical series. Also commences part-publication of the geological lectures to become Deucalion. Dabbles in spiritualism. Death of Rose La Touche, aged 27.
1877	Whistler v. Ruskin case, with latter too ill to attend. Various treatises on art and drawing published. Suffers from giddiness.
1878	Guild of St George legally constituted. Attacked by serious mental illness.
1879	Resigns Slade professorship.
1880	Publishes Fiction, Fair and Foul in 19th Century Magazine; also Arrows of the Chace (miscellaneous correspondence) and the initial part of The Bible
18811882		Further attacks of mental illness.
1883	Re-elected to Slade professorship and delivers lectures which become The Art of England (1884). Notes his brains are always on the over-boil.
1884	Delivers The Storm-Cloud of the 19th Century, one of his most exquisitely wrought and self-revealing lectures. Publishes Oxford lectures entitled The Pleasures of England. Increasing mental turmoil.
1885	Commences his last work of greatness, the auto-biography Praeterita which runs intermittently in parts until July 1889. Mental attacks once more,
1887	Struggles, after yet further mental onslaughts, to work. Hortus Inclusus (letters) published.
1888	Makes final Continental journey from which he is brought home by his cousin, Joan Severn, very seriously disturbed. The rest is silence.
1900	Dies 20 January and is buried in Coniston churchyard.

Acknowledgments

For a book in the Critical Heritage Series a thorough bibliography can be of considerable assistance; thus it is unfortunate that, in the case of Ruskin, no such volume exists. However, two bibliographies pave the scholars way: the first is A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, LL.D. with a List of the Most Important Ruskiniana, compiled by Thomas J. Wise and James P. Smart, edited by Thomas J. Wise (2 vols, London, 1893; reprinted 1966); the second is in vol. 38 (pp. 10996) of the Works. And to both, especially to the latter, I am under obligation. Of much aid in identifying various reviewers were the three monumental volumes comprising The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; similarly, that admirable journal, the Victorian Periodicals Review, proved most helpful.

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