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One of these children, Catherine, married a John Ruskin. The origin of the name of Ruskin is English, dating from the middle ages. Soon after the dissolution of Furness Abbey, Richerde Ruskyn and his family were land-owners at Dalton-in-Furness. One branch, and that with which we are especially concerned, settled in Edinburgh.
And pray, would he ever have become a great painter at all if he had stuck to Kendal or Dalton-in-Furness all his life? if he had never been brought in contact with the influences, the money, and the sitters of London? Those were the questions that Phoebe had to answer. 'Would the beautiful Lady This and Lady That ever have come to Kendal to be painted? would he ever have seen Lady Hamilton?
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