WMR errors re: Mrs. Ruskin
Overview
| Date | 1904-07-02 |
| Publication | Athenaeum |
| Topic | WMR errors re: Mrs. Ruskin |
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| RA display | |
| Subject | literature |
| Keywords | New info debunks previous conversation |
| Standards | facts |
| ↳ | new information |
| Notes | Previous conversations re: Mrs. Ruskin prove inaccurate. |
Annotation details
1904 July 2 Athenaeum
Topic:
correct WMR editorial mistake in "Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870."
Citation:
Rossetti, William M. "Rossetti Papers." Athenaeum (1904): 17. Web. 21 September 2011.
Summary:
Rossetti retracts two statements that he regrets having published based on conversations with Effie Gray (Ruskin's ex-wife and Millais wife), which he discovered were not accurate.
Mode:
critic, corrective
Keywords:
retraction, error, correction
Standards of Judgment:
new information disproving previous statements
Rhetoric and tone:
corrective
References:
Effie Gray, the former Mrs. Ruskin and wife of Sir John Everett Millais
Rhetoric:
definitive