1 gen 1865 anni - John Ruskin published Sesame and Lilies featuring ‘Of Queen’s Gardens’

Descrizione:

- regarded as epitomising the conservative Victorian ideal of femininity - defined women as passive and belonging to the private sphere of the domestic home
the man was 'the doer, the creator, the discoverer' of the public sphere

- urges women to abandon trivial feminine pursuits in order to act as a moral force in countering the ills of society