![]() Ruskin” might be lost on many modern readers, although Forster obviously felt no obligation to explain it when he wrote his story. Forster’s celebrated 1908 novel, A Room with a View. Ruskin” is Lucy Honeychurch, the heroine of E. The woman unsure of her own reaction to a lovely church without consulting “Mr. There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. “She walked about disdainfully,” we learn, “unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. She doesn’t have her Baedeker, a popular travel guide, and is feeling lost without it. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Englishwoman named Lucy is visiting an ancient church in Florence, unsure of what she is looking at, or how, exactly, to see it. He was refined, very famous, and eccentric. ![]() ![]() ![]() A woodcut of Ruskin made by John Bryden, published in 1898. ![]()
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