After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920After Ruskin is the first book to explore the social and political influence of the leading Victorian art and social critic, John Ruskin (1819 1900). It explains how he inspired a range of individuals to reform Britain's social and political culture in the period between 1870 and 1920. These individuals operated in a number of key institutions and organisations: Ruskin's Guild of St. George, societies formed in Ruskin's name, the university