Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: Of Kings' Treasuries and Of Queens' Gardens.

Language: English

Published by London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866

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Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, Cork, IrelandInanna Rare Books Ltd.

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Third edition, with preface. 12 x 17.5cm. (23), 196 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering and gilt edges. Spine sunned, minor marks to boards and joint beginning to loosen but otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed with previous owner's name on half-title page. Stamp on front free endpaper. John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. The publication was widely popular in its time. There are two halves to the work: "Of Kings' Treasuries", in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and "Of Queens' Gardens", in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. The work offers readers full access to Ruskin's complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. Feminist critics of the 1960s and 1970s regarded "Of Queens' Gardens" as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill's more progressive "Subjection of Women". [Princeton].…

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Title
Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: Of Kings' Treasuries and Of Queens' Gardens.
Author
Ruskin, John.
Publisher
London, Smith, Elder & Co.
Publication year
1866
Condition
Wie neu
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Item weight
1,200,000 grams
Seller catalogs
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Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland

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