(Talk about projection!)
The complicated Mr. Ruskin: http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300092608. His life of aart, history (what haunts here?), architecture (being buildings and people), a philosopher in the old-time sense. I think he could have been an alchemist in things ritualistic and aesthetic, but just couldn't relax enough to really -- well, literally, get it up (see below). But he certainly worked as a catalyst in his time.
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**The PRB's
not as they were, but as they fill our dreams
And for this dessert (pudding?), this by Lady Eastlake, the real life lady Thompson will play. Everything begins and ends with Jane Eyre, doesn't it?