Joan Maragall and the English world: notes on literature, aesthetics and society from his personal library

Joan Maragall has been studied as an intellectual, as a critic attentive to the new European trends, and as a journalist committed to the transformation of Barcelona from the turn of the century and beginning of the 20th century. While approaching Maragall’s personal library, and taking into account the journalistic corpus, this article aims to provide an overview of his contact with English literature and English aesthetic and moral culture, with special attention to the affinity with John Ruskin through his peculiar view on women. It includes at the end a reflection on the city of Barcelona from an interlocutor well informed by Maragall, the American art historian and collector Royall Tyler. In the appendix are listed English and American works of literature from Maragall’s personal
library and some works of context.