John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

Valerie Purton is emerita professor of Victorian literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and has published widely on the Victorians. She is the author of Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition (2012); editor of the Everyman Dombey and Son (1997) and Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers (2013); and co-author of the Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson (2010) and Poems by Two Brothers: The Poetry of Tennyson’s Father and Uncle (1993). Purton has been editor of the Tennyson Research Bulletin since 2011.