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Jun 5, 2015 · Chapter. Information. The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 109 - 144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511696213.010. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2010. First published in: 1905. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
- John Ruskin
- 1902
Sep 23, 2014 · English. Colophon reads: Here ends Of queens' gardens by John Ruskin, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, and published by George Allen, London, in the year 1902. Includes index.
- OF QUEENS^GARDENS
- ELIEVING that all literature
- THEREFORE kingly, power,
- MM
- 44 rights " of Woman, as if these
- ET
- [Strength, and fall by their vanities ;—Hamlet
- | In Romeo and Juliet, the wise and brave
- Inacy of the husbands, are redeemed at last
- a guide to him when he needs her most,j
- Regan, and Goneril—they are felt at once to be frightful exceptions to the ordinary laws]
- Shakespeare's testimony to the position and,
- | they cannot save.
- » earnest in a purpose wisely conceived, or
- Maclvor, Rose Bradwardine, Catherine Sey-
- ^Vyi,jintellectual power, we find in all a quite in^
- Lby any chance, the youth who watches over,
- Accepted for the servant of thy rule*
- With whom each sovereign good dwells
- It hardly ever had remembered good*
- i not so absolute ; but as regards
- Good Women ; but no Legend
- I could go back into the mythical teaching oJ
- Spirit of Wisdom the form of a Woman ; and
- )UT I will not wander into this
- The man is always to be the wiser ; he is to
- ~~*>S it not somewhat important
- I say OBEDIENT
- See Appendix, Note B. j+\
- a determining, function. Let me
- Mother, as if they could be compared in similar
- But the woman's power is for rule, not for
- HAVE been trying, thus far, tol
- | if you indeed think this a true conception
- NESS—which point you to the source, and
- €E And they must be feelings of delight, if
- HIS for the means: now note
- 44 A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet"
- OE^^jher an object to know ; but only to feel, and|
- BELIEVE, then, with this ex-
- R even of the fountain of wit
- Mature, and the worst romance is not so cor*
- ITHOUT, however, venturing'
- 44 Her household motions light and free
- a fawn in a field. It knows the bad weeds
- 44 The
- CBut the forests of Domr^my—those werc
- German Diets, These had their sweet bells
- 1 enough to spread a network or awning of
- ND yet I cannot—though there
- We now come to our last,
- woman's private. But this is not alto'
- • Now the man's work for his own homel
- EEP rooted in the innermost)
- | your lovers queens to your husbands
- TELL you that this is to m«
- a deep under meaning there lies,
- 44 Her feet have touched the meadows, and left the]
- 'But it is little to say of a woman, that she
- "Come,l^
- Is this only a little power ? Far among thej
- Treasuries/ Appendix, Note J. J* but no'
- " Come into the garden, Maud,
- CWill you not go down among them?
- 44 Come into the garden, Maud,
- Him in vain at the gate of that old gardei
- APPENDIX
fT will, perhaps, be well, as this Lec^j ture is the sequeh of one previously given, that I should shortly state to youj my general inten* ition in both. The questions specially proposed to you in^ fthe first, namely, How and What to Read, rose out of a far deeper one, which it was myl ^endeavour to make you propose earnestly to yourselves, namely,...
and all education are only use^j ful so far as they tend to con* firm this calm, beneficent, and
—first, over ourselves, and, through ourselves, over all around us,—I ami now going to ask you to consider with me far* ther, what special portion or kind of this royaL authority, arising out of noble education, may, rightly be possessed by women ; and how far they also are called to a true queenly power,( not in their households merely, but over a...
are met bya far deeper question/ mwhich — strange though this may seem — remains among] mmany of us yet quite undeci* ded in spite of its infinite im> portance. €EWe cannot determine what thei I queenly power of women should be, until weI are agreed what their ordinary power should be. We cannot consider how education may fit them for any widely ex...
could ever be separate from the mission and the rights of Man—as if she and her lord were [creatures of independent kind, and of irrecon* cilable claim. This, at least, is wrong. And 'not less wrong—perhaps even more foolishly wrong (for I will anticipate thus far what I khope to prove)—is the idea that woman is 'only the shadow and attendant image...
j us try, then, whether we cannot get at some clear and harmonious idea (it must bel harmonious if it is true) oft what womanly mind and virtue are in power and office, with respect to man's; and how their relations, rightly accepted, aid and increase the vigour! and honour and authority of both. €EAnd now I must repeat one thing I said in the/ las...
is indolent, and drowsily speculative ; Romeo an impatient boy; the Merchant of Venice languidly submissive to adverse fortune; 'Kent, in King Lear, is entirely noble at heart, 'but too rough & unpolished to be of true use at the critical time, and he sinks into the office of a servant only* Orlando, no less noble, is yet the despairing toy of chan...
stratagem of the wife is brought to ruinous issue by the reckless impatience of her hus^ band. In Winter's Tale, and in Cymbeline, the happiness and existence of two princely households, lost through long years, and imperilled to the death by the folly and obsti*
'by the queenly patience and wisdom of the wives* In Measure for Measure, the foul hv justice of the judge, and the foul cowardice ,of the brother, are opposed to the victorious truth and adamantine purity of a woman. In loriolanus, the mother's counsel, acted upon in time, would have saved her son from all evil ; his momentary forgetfulness of it ...
that all the bitter catastrophe follows* Fin* ally, though there are three wicked women' among the principal figures—Lady Macbeth,
of life; fatal in their influence also, in pro* portion to the power for good which they^ have abandoned. €E Such, in broad light, is {
character of women in human life. He re^; presents them as infallibly faithful and wise counsellors, — incorruptibly just and pure, examples—strong always to sanctify, even|
OT as in any wise comparable in knowledge of the nature of vu man,—still less in his under^\Wy* standing of the causes and(p^f^ courses of fate,—but only as^^ the writer who has given us the broadest view of the conditions and modes of ordinary thought in modern society, I ask | you next to receive the witness of Walter Scott €E I put aside his mer...
*\sxy<* dealing with forms of hostile evil, definitely
ton, Diana Vernon, Lilias Redgauntlet, Alice! Bridgenorth, Alice Lee, and Jeanie Deans,- with endless varieties of grace, tenderness, andj
i ^^^rfallible sense of dignity and justice ; a fearless, instant, and untiring self-sacrifice, to even thd appearance of duty, much more to its real claims; and, finally, a patient wisdom of deeply^restrained affection, which does in-finitely more than protect its objects from a| momentary error; it gradually forms, ani- mates, and exalts the char...
0or educates, his mistress. EXT take,though more briefly, graver testimony—that of the great Italians andGreeks* You know well the plan of Dante's l^^Ss great poem—that it is a love^^ poem to his dead lady ; a song [of praise for her watch over his soul. Stoop* ing only to pity, never to love, she yet saves him from destruction—saves him from hell*...
Without almost, I am all rapturous, Since thus my will was set
| separate, Fulfilling the perfection of thy state* " Lady, since I conceived Thy pleasurable aspect in my heart,
But now my servitude Is thine, and I am full of joy and rest A man from a wild beast Thou madest me, since for thy love I lived/' [OU may think perhaps a Greek knight would have had a lower estimate of women than this Christian lover. His spiritual subjection to them was indeed
^their own personal character, it was only be* cause you could not have followed me so ^easily, that I did not take the Greek women instead of Shakespeare's; and instance, fori chief ideal types of human beauty and faith, j [the simple mother's and wife's heart of Andro* mache; the divine, yet rejected wisdom of 1
of Good Men* I would take Spenser, and] show you how all his fairy knights are some* times deceived and sometimes vanquished but the soul of Una is never darkened, and< the spear of Britomart is never broken. Nay,
the most ancient times, and show you howl the great people,—by one of whose princesses it was appointed that the Lawgiver of all the earth should be educated, rather than byj his own kindred ;—how that great Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, gave to their
into her hand, for a symbol, the weaver's' shuttle ; and how the name and the form of! that spirit, adopted, believed, and obeyed by' the Greeks, became that Athena of the olive* helm, and cloudy shield, to faith in whomj you owe, down to this date, whatever youj hold most precious in art, in literature, or in types of national virtue.
distant and mythical element; I will only ask you to give its legitimate value to the testis mony of these great poets and men of the world,—consistent, as you see it is, on this head, I will ask you whether it can be supposed that these men, in 'the main work of their lives, are amusing themselves with a fictitious and idle view of [the relations ...
be the thinker, the ruler, the superior in know* ledge and discretion, as in power*
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
NOTE A, p. io. I ought, in order to make this assertion fully understood, to have noted the various weaknesses which lower the ideal of other great characters of men in the Waverley novels—the selfishness and narrowness of thought in Red' gauntlet, the weak religious enthusiasm in Edward
Sesame and Lilies. Lecture II.—Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens. “Be thou glad, oh thirsting Desert; let the desert be made cheerful, and bloom as the lily; and the barren places of Jordan shall run wild with wood.”—I SAIAH xxxv, I. (Septuagint.)
Of queens' gardens / by John Ruskin
Published in 1865 under the title Sesame and Lilies, ‘Of Kings’ Treasuries’ and ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’ provoked much debate, in Ruskin’s day as in ours, about women’s education and employment. As Elizabeth Helsinger has noted, most Victorian reviewers perceived the lectures to be ‘an angry attack on traditional values’.
"OF QUEENS' GARDENS" KATE MILLETT'S INFLUENTIAL "THE DEBATE OVER WOMEN: RUSKIN VERSUS Mill" appeared first in the pages of Victorian Studies and was repub-lished shortly thereafter, in slightly revised form, as a segment of her Sexual Politics.' In the essay she treats Ruskin's "Of Queens' Gardens"
