George's Guild" for his social projects), and
German Popular Stories (1823), from which Ruskin copied George Cruikshank's illustrations.
Harry and Lucy, Seven Champions, and
Scientific Dialogues were models for his earliest writing. In
The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War (1866),
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-1884), his letters to his father, and his last series of Slade lectures he further discusses stories that influenced his early youth. David C. Hanson, in "Ruskin's
Praeterita and Landscape in Evangelical Children's Education" (1989), traces the influence of Mary Martha Sherwood's children's book
The History of Henry Milner (1822-1837) on Ruskin's view of his own development.
Ruskin produced verses as early as his seventh year, one of which he quotes in The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (1869). As a teenager he had verses published in a gift annual titled Friendship's Offering, and he had articles on architecture and geology published in periodicals before he was twenty; he also won the Newdigate Prize for a poem he wrote at Oxford.
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