Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980

Not Right for Our Rose

By Diane Johnson
John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867
introduced and edited by Van Akin Burd

Oxford University Press, 192 pp., $19.95

Students of the nineteenth century tell stories of bonfires or of dusty attics, horror stories by which such things as Byron's journal or Turner's erotic drawings are lost forever or, less often, tales of lucky preservation. This edition of Rose La Touche's diaries is an attic story and a bonfire story both.



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