Cynthia Gamble

Cynthia Gamble, a noted authority on Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and the Belle Époque, is vice-chairman of the Ruskin Society, and Visiting Fellow at The Ruskin Library & Research Centre at the University of Lancaster, and a Companion of the Guild of St George.

She is the author of, among many other works, Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation. She contributed a chapter, «22, rue de Provence: Siegfried Bing's Hub of Art Nouveau Creativity and its rayonnement in the World of Marcel Proust» to the book Proust au seuil de la modernité: Proust, Literature and the Arts. She is one of the contributors to the Dictionnaire Marcel Proust and the author of John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads. She received her Ph.D. from the University of London.

Cynthia's passion for Proust began when she was a student at the University of London. She loves being a Proust detective and was the first person to uncover the truth about who really translated La Bible d'Amiens and Sésame et les lys, as revealed in her book, Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation. She enjoys working in an Anglo-French framework. Her most recent book, L'œil de Ruskin: l'exemple de la Bourgogne, co-authored with her French colleague, Matthieu Pinette, contains a chapter on Proust.

On April 16, 2012, the Gabriel Gimpel & Müller in Paris welcomed Cynthia Gambel and Matthieu Pinette to present their new book L'Oeil de Ruskin, a work devoted to John Ruskin's visits to Burgundy. You can read her article in the Brantwood Newsletter: click here.

Below is a more extensive list of her publications. Her book on Proust and Ruskin was published in 2002.

Works by Cynthia Gamble

2011

"John Ruskin and a Venetian Episode in the Life of the National Gallery", Ruskin Review and Bulletin, Lancaster University, vol….p…[forthcoming Autumn 2011]. L'Oeil de Ruskin :l'exemple de la Bourgogne (with Matthieu Pinette), Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2011. "22, rue de Provence: Siegfried Bing's Hub of Art Nouveau Activity and its 'Rayonnement' in the World of Marcel Proust", in Nigel Harkness and Marion Schmid (eds), Au seuil de la modernité: Proust, Literature and the Arts, Peter Lang, Bern and Oxford, 2011, p. 113-128. "Some Mysteries of the Easthampstead Mosaic Revealed", The Link (Parish Magazine of St Michael and St Mary Magdalene, Easthampstead, Berkshire), February-March, 2011, p. 10-12.

2010

Electronic publication "Disproving Ruskin's Advice: 'Don't Go to Exhibitions' – A Review of Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain", edited by George Landow, with illustrations. www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/gamble1.html

2008

"Richard Martin Bales", notice nécrologique, Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 58, 2008, p. 147-148. "Medieval Inspiration", Salopian Recorder, Number 61, Journal of the Friends of Shropshire Archives, Winter 2008, p. 2-4. "A l'ombre de la cathédrale picarde: La Bible d'Amiens de John Ruskin et de Marcel Proust", in Françoise Michaud-Fréjaville (sous la direction de), Images de la cathédrale dans la littérature et dans l'art: actes du colloque de Tours (5-7 octobre 2006), Collection Art Sacré, no. 26, Centre François-Garnier, Châtillon-sur-Indre, 2008, p. 65-73. John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads, New European Publications, London, 2008.

2006

"John Ruskin: conflicting responses to Crystal Palace" in Françoise Dassy et Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall (sous la direction de) Sociétés et conflit: enjeux et représentation, Paris: L'Harmattan et l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 2006, pp. 135-149.

2004

Contributor (see details below) to Dictionnaire Marcel Proust, edited by Annick Bouillaguet and Brian G. Rogers, Paris, Champion, 2004: Angleterre, pp. 66-67; Exposition, p. 370; "Gainsborough, par Gabriel Mourey", p. 407; T. H. Huxley, p. 485; Lecture, pp. 558-560; J. S. Mill, pp. 627-628; Miroir, pp. 631-632; Préface. Au Royaume du Bistouri, p. 792; Proust en Angleterre, pp. 823-824; Renaissance, p. 854-856; Sydney Schiff, pp. 916-917; C. K. Scott Moncrieff, p. 924; "Sur la lecture", pp. 977-978; Transposition sexuelle, pp. 1014-1016. "Adrien Proust et John Ruskin: la mort inspiratrice du travail proustien", Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 54, 2004, pp. 37-59. "Proust and Ruskin: Perspectives on Amiens and its Cathedral", European Business Review, vol. 16, no. 3, 2004, pp. 321-325. "Ruskin's Crystal Palace: a 'cucumber frame between two chimneys' or the 'gherkin' of the 19th century?", The Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood Newsletter, Spring 2004, pp. 11-15.

2003

Ruskin-Turner. Dessins et voyages en Picardie romantique (with Stephen Wildman and Matthieu Pinette), Amiens, Édition Musée de Picardie/Amiens Métropole, 2003. Review article on Robert Hewison (ed.), Ruskin's Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy (Ashgate, 2000), and Francis O'Gorman, Late Ruskin: New Contexts (Ashgate, 2001), Nineteenth-Century Contexts, pp. 275-278. "Ruskin's Camberwell Connections and Lecture", Camberwell Quarterly, No. 139, October 2003, pp. 5-8. "Marcel Proust et John Ruskin: deux approches d'Amiens et de sa cathédrale", Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, no. 668, October 2003, pp. 576-588. "Some Thoughts on Proust and Ruskin", in The Companion, The Journal of the Guild of St. George, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn/Winter 2003, p. 35. "Mrs Ruskin", The Ruskin Programme Bulletin, 32, October 2003, pp. 20-22. "How John Ruskin changed Marcel Proust's life", Ethical Record, vol. 108, no.7, September 2003, pp. 7-11.

2002

Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation, Birmingham, Alabama, Summa Publications, 2002. "A Perpetual Paradise": Ruskin's Northern France (with Stephen Wildman), The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, 2002. "'En ajoutant to vous auriez tout sauvé: la réception de Marcel Proust en Angleterre", La Réception de Proust à l'étranger, edited by Mireille Naturel, Illiers-Combray, Institut Marcel Proust International, 2002, pp. 43-59. Insights into Ruskin's Northern Gothic: Abbeville, Amiens & Rouen, The Ruskin Programme, Lancaster University, 2002.

2001

"From Belle Époque to First World War: a Social Panorama", chapter 1 in The Cambridge Companion to Proust, ed. Richard Bales, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 7-24. "Ruskin's Valediction to Amiens" in John Ruskin the Brantwood Years, International Symposium Papers, The Ruskin Programme, University of Lancaster, 2001. "Disproving Ruskin's Advice: `Don't Go to Exhibitions'", Nineteenth Century Studies, 15, 2001, pp. 121-130.

2000

"Quel a été le véritable rôle de Marie Nordlinger dans l'œuvre traductrice de Marcel Proust?", Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 50, 2000, pp. 141-165. Review of Marcel Proust, Selected Letters 1918-1922, edited by Philip Kolb (London: HarperCollins, 2000), Bulletin Marcel Proust, no. 50, 2000, pp. 203-204. "Tall Tales from the Ruskin Symposium" (with Alan Davis), The Ruskin Programme Bulletin, 24, October 2000, pp. 8-12.

1999

"Re-creating Ruskin in Edinburgh through Word and Image", The Ruskin Programme Bulletin, 19, April 1999, pp. 4-6. "Zipporah: a Ruskinian Enigma Appropriated by Marcel Proust", Word & Image, vol. 15, no. 4, July-September 1999, pp. 381-394. "John Ruskin, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and the Alps", The Alpine Journal, 1999, pp. 185-196. "L'Exemplaire de La Bible d'Amiens à la bibliothèque municipale d'Amiens", Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, no. 654, December 1999, pp. 286-288.

1998

"Ruskin's Sheep", The Ruskin Programme Bulletin, 16, April 1998, pp. 13-15.

1997

"Proust, traducteur de Ruskin", Bulletin d'Informations Proustiennes, no. 28, December 1997, pp. 31-42.

1996

"René Gimpel et Marcel Proust: une longue amitié", Les Français de Grande-Bretagne, July 1996, pp. 22-25. "Viollet-le-Duc et Ruskin: peintres des Alpes", La Revue Savoisienne, 1996, pp. 125-137.

1995

"À l'ombre de la Vierge Dorée de la cathédrale d'Amiens: Ruskin et l'imaginaire proustien", La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1995, pp. 313-322. "Marcel Proust et le Cahier René Gimpel", Œuvres et Critiques, XX, 2, 1995, pp. 145-161.

1994

Review article on M. Wheeler and N. Whiteley, The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture (Manchester University Press, 1992), Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 18, 1994, pp. 192-198.

1993

"Proust-Ruskin Perspectives on La Vierge Dorée at Amiens Cathedral", Word & Image, vol. 9, no. 3, July-September 1993, pp. 270-286. Review article on A. Grésillon, J.-L. Lebrave and C. Viollet, Proust à la lettre: les intermittences de l'écriture (Tusson, Charente, 1990), Bulletin d'Informations Proustiennes, vol. 24, 1993, pp. 156-158. Reviews of Christie McDonald, The Proustian Fabric: Associations of Memory (Lincoln-London, University of Nebraska Press, 1991) and of Edward Bizub, La Venise intérieure: Proust et la poétique de la traduction (Neuchâtel, La Baconnière, 1991), French Studies, vol. XLVII, no. 3, July 1993, pp. 346-347.