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The career of Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) encompassed many aspects of late Victorian and Edwardian culture, including book and theatre design and art criticism, painting and sculpture. He was a key figure in the artistic and literary world of his day and featured amongst his friends Yeats, Laurence Housman, Thomas Sturge Moore and Gordon Bottomley. He designed theatrical productions by Wilde, Yeats and Shaw, and was the lifelong companion of the painter Charles Shannon. This biographical study draws on a wide range of sources to reveal a man of strong opinions and artistic conviction, noted for his wit, generosity and versatility. It provides an analysis of the man in relation to his art and the culture of his times.

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A major, thoroughly researched biography....Delaney's comprehensive biography arrives as a capstone. --English Literature in Transition<br> Deeply researched and well sourced and offers an assessment of Ricketts which will be necessary reading for anyone working in the area. --Biography<br> Subtle, readable, and closely argued. --The Times Saturday Review (London)<br> Delaney exposes parts of the art world's infrastructure: the power of critics, the international exhibitions, the tight netwrok, even clubbiness, of artists and critics, and tensions between modernity and nostalgia. --Albion<br> Ricketts left us a rich legacy, and so has Delaney in nicely recreating the man and the artist whose struggles reflect the misgivings of the Transition age and elucidate the lingering apprehensions of our own. --Victorian Studies<br>

""A major, thoroughly researched biography....Delaney's comprehensive biography arrives as a capstone.""--English Literature in Transition ""Deeply researched and well sourced and offers an assessment of Ricketts which will be necessary reading for anyone working in the area.""--Biography ""Subtle, readable, and closely argued.""--The Times Saturday Review (London) ""Delaney exposes parts of the art world's infrastructure: the power of critics, the international exhibitions, the tight netwrok, even clubbiness, of artists and critics, and tensions between modernity and nostalgia.""--Albion ""Ricketts left us a rich legacy, and so has Delaney in nicely recreating the man and the artist whose struggles reflect the misgivings of the Transition age and elucidate the lingering apprehensions of our own.""--Victorian Studies

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