The Feminist Origins of ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’

THE INVOCATION OF CLIO: A Response

“…Then Craig complains that I endorse through silence Ruskin's hierarchy of gender. Here, I am afraid, he is woefully ignorant of the excellent recent feminist work on Ruskin which long ago questioned Kate Millett's favoring of Ruskin over J. S. Mill (Peterson 2002;Birch 2002). Sesame and Lilies was well-received by the women's movement in Ruskin's own day and this is not surprising, as it closely reflected the feminist work of Anne Jameson whom Ruskin had met in Venice.…”