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Which newspapers did John Ruskin use to defend the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
John Ruskin defended the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood against their critics by writing letters to the newspaper The Times of London in 1851 and 1854. In addition to these letters, he published an enthusiastic pamphlet about the group in 1851 to support their work.12