Full name: A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion

Author: Mandy Kirkby Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345532862 0345532864

"A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it."   Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings--love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom, and this book will share the historical, literary, and cultural significance of flowers with a whole new generation. With lavish illustrations, a dual dictionary of flora and meanings, and suggestions for creating expressive arrangements, this keepsake is the perfect compendium for everyone who has ever given or received a bouquet. Similar books: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Black Voices by Abraham Chapman Thrall by Natasha Trethewey Because You Died by Vera Brittain How to Kill a Dragon by Calvert Watkins The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth by Nicholas Murray Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett The Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson Dorothy Parker by Marion Meade A Story as Sharp as a Knife by Robert Bringhurst Music at Midnight by John Drury The Better Angel by Roy Morris Jr. Byron by Fiona MacCarthy Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Paul Celan by John Felstiner John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet Young Romantics by Daisy Hay