Kipps by H. G. Wells: “he opened Sesame and Lilies and read it with ruthless determination for some time.”
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells: “I don't know if you have read Sesame and Lilies, but there you have, set forth far more fairly than any words of mine could do, an ideal of a woman's place ..."”
The Octopus by Frank Norris: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”