1329552 SESAME & LILIES. John Ruskin, Sybil Wragge.
SESAME & LILIES
SESAME & LILIES
SESAME & LILIES
SESAME & LILIES

SESAME & LILIES

London: J. M. Dent & Sond Ltd., 1937. Reprint. 10mo., 190 pages; VG; bound in full polished green calf, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling, spine sun-faded brown, mild fading to edges of boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; bound b y Root, London, with their stamp; interior clean; shelved case 0.

1329552

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NOTES

Contains both "Of Kings' Treasuries" and "Of Queens' Gardens", parallel texts on Victorian manhood and women as the moral guides of men.; "Sesame and Lilies (1865) would become notorious in the late 20th century as a stock example of Victorian male chauvinism. In fact, Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine, as pacific, altruistic, and uncompetitive, to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist social model." [Encyclopaedia Britannica]