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Henry Blake Fuller (January 9, 1857 - July 28, 1929) was a United States novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois. Career-Fuller's earliest works were travel romances set in Italy that featured allegorical characters. Both The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890) and The Chatelaine of La Trinite (1892) bear some thematic resemblance to the works of Henry James, whose primary interest was in the contrast between American and European ways of life. Fuller's first two books appealed to the genteel tastes of cultivated New Englanders such as Charles Eliot Norton and James Russell...

John Ruskin first met Charles Eliot Norton in 1855. Norton was the American counterpart of a man of letters. With a common distaste for the industrial and scientific directions of modern civilisation, the two men became intimate correspondents and the letters they exchanged until shortly before Ruskin's death in 1900 reflect and express, often more vividly than his own public prose, the spiritual, amatory, artistic, and cultural preoccupations of Ruskin's life. The revelations were so candid that Norton, as one of Ruskin's literary executors, burned many of the letters, altered a number of...