Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Ruskin's Life and Works -- Editor's Introduction by Deborah Epstein Nord -- Note on the Text -- Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin -- Glossary -- Rethinking Sesame and Lilies -- Authority, Desire, and the Pleasures of Reading by Elizabeth Helsinger -- Of Sesame and Lilies: Education in a Humane Society by Jan Marsh -- How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies by Seth Koven -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- List of Contributors.