Danger Lurks in the Darkness: The Ruskin/Burne-Jones Medieval Poetry Salon for Girls.

Author / Editor
Lankewish, Vincent A.

Title
Danger Lurks in the Darkness: The Ruskin/Burne-Jones Medieval Poetry Salon for Girls.

Published
Victorian Poetry 60 (2022): 35-164; 10 b&w illus.

Description
Introduces the activities and concerns of a Victorian "salon" conducted by John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones in which young women could "engage in serious conversations about medieval poetry, about art, and about humanitarianism and virtue." Focuses on Ruskin and Burne-Jones’s reception of LGW, with attention to Victorian depictions of Medea, Burne-Jones's tapestry of LGW and the Kelmscott Chaucer, and Ruskin's annotations in his copy of Chaucer's works.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Legend of Good Women