* Burd, Van Akin (Ed.) "John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 18". " The Passion of John Ruskin", a short film about the relationship, was made in 1994 by Alex Chappel, starring Mark McKinney (Ruskin) and Neve Campbell (Rose). According to Wolfgang Kemp "the whole work is riddled with allusions and direct references to the la Touches". Rose and Ruskin's romance is alluded to in Nabokov's novel "Lolita". He also took solace in Spiritualism, trying to contact Rose's spirit. He convinced himself that the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio had included portraits of Rose in his paintings of the life of Saint Ursula. Whatever the cause, her death was tragic and it is generally credited with causing the onset of bouts of insanity in Ruskin from around 1877. Various authors describe the death as arising either from madness, anorexia, a broken heart, religious mania or hysteria - or a combination of these. Rose died in a Dublin nursing home in 1875 at age 27, where she had been placed by her parents.
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Ruskin repeated his marriage proposal after Rose became legally free to decide for herself, but she still refused to commit to marriage because of religious differences. The author George MacDonald served as a go-between for Ruskin and Rose, and was their closest friend and advisor. They were also concerned because of the failure of Ruskin's first marriage to Effie Gray, which had ended with an annulment on the grounds of his "incurable impotency", a diagnosis Ruskin later disputed. Rose did not refuse, but her pious County Kildare Evangelical Protestant parents opposed the marriage, regarding Ruskin as a socialist and an atheist.
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Ruskin proposed marriage to her at seventeen. "walked like a little white statue through the twilight woods, talking solemnly".
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Ruskin's first impression of her was that she. She was a high-spirited child, yet also deeply religious almost to the point of mania. Ruskin met Rose when she was ten years old, and fell in love with her when she was eleven. Rose La Touche (1848-1875) was the major love in the life of John Ruskin.