Stuart Eagles

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Stuart Eagles has published widely on Ruskin and his legacy. His study, AFTER RUSKIN, published by Oxford University Press, explored Ruskin's social and political influence in Britain between 1870 and 1920. His study, RUSKIN AND TOLSTOY, based on his Ruskin Lecture (2010), was published by the Guild. He has contributed papers to book collections, exhibition catalogues, journals and websites, addressing political, economic, cultural, educational, aesthetic and translational questions, and focusing on Britain (especially Sheffield and Manchester), Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, and most comprehensively, Russia. He was a founding member of the Anglo-Russian Research Network. He formerly served as the Secretary of the Guild of St George, and of The Ruskin Society, and edited the Guild's magazine, THE COMPANION, from 2012 to 2017. In recent years he has written on Ruskin's reception in eastern Europe, and Ruskin's influence on Wilde and Morris. In February 2023, he gave the Ruskin Society Birthday Lecture on the subject of his forthcoming book, John Ruskin's Sheffield, and was jointly awarded lifetime membership of the society. In 2024, he edited Medicine and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Berkshire for the Berkshire Record Society. His most recent book is Ruskin's Faithful Stewards (2024), the first biography of Henry and Emily Swan, the curators of the Guild's museum in Walkley, Sheffield. Since 2020 he has published the Ruskin Research Blog (see link below)

Why did you become a Companion of the Guild?

Stuart says: "I joined the Guild in order to share in the effort to apply Ruskin's values and ideas to contemporary problems."

Web links: stuarteagles.co.uk, www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/encounters/eagles.html, stuarteagles.co.uk/blog