ABSTRACT
Of all those entertained by the Cowper-Temples at Broad-lands, one stood out. They called him Chrysostom; St. John the golden mouthed; John Ruskin. He, in return, called them ΦιΛον and ΦιΛη. Mrs. Cowper-Temple, nursing him through a serious illness at Matlock in 1871, became his ‘tutelary power’, ‘Egeria’, ‘Grannie’, ‘Isola’. She in her turn found he gave ‘a halo to life’, and ‘set us all to manual work’. 462
