John Ruskin | Autograph letter signed, to Alice Ottley, on girls' education, 11 March n.y.

John Ruskin

Autograph letter signed, to Alice Ottley

on the education of girls ("...if indeed, you do believe, not in me, but in the perfectly plains truths I have been appointed to fight for - up to the point of really carrying them out in quiet daily practice, you will soon find yourself able to help even girls of 16 who have never gathered a primrose..."), 2 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 11 March n.y.

[with:] group photograph of Alice Ottley and students (150 x 195mm) by Elliott and Fry, mounted, with names of sitters on the mount, photographer's label on the reverse; silvered and faded, mount heavily worn with loss

Alice Ottley (1840-1912) was an educationalist, and the founding headmistress of a girls' school in Worcester.