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Author : teNeues Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783823864042
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Victorian Country Flowers written by teNeues Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fanny Robinson
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780060197032
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Country Flowers Of A Victorian Lady written by Fanny Robinson and published by Harper. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by the press as a publishing phenomenon, The Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady is a classic work that will "change the way we look at flowers forever" (Mail on Sunday, London). Over the past 150 years Fanny Robinson's "Book of Memory," as she called it, has been enjoyed as a treasured heirloom by her family. Now, for the first time, her beautiful work -- arguably the most exquisite collection of Victorian flower paintings in existence -- can be appreciated by all. Fanny's exceptional book combines elegant watercolors with evocative poetry that is finely illuminated in the manner of a medieval Book of Hours. Using the symbolic Language of Flowers, she invests each flower grouping with subtle and often highly romantic meanings -- indeed, it is thought that the volume was intended as a lasting tribute to a lost lover. In her fascinating commentary on the paintings, Gill Saunders, a senior curator in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, explains the intriguing floral symbolism and takes the reader on a delightful journey into Fanny Robinson's leisured and cultivated world of flower, pen and brush.
Author : Mandy Kirkby
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345532864
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book A Victorian Flower Dictionary written by Mandy Kirkby and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Author : John Murphy
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486309038
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Plants of the Victorian High Country written by John Murphy and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants of the Victorian High Country allows walkers with little botanical knowledge to identify plants they are likely to encounter along the popular tracks of Victoria's High Country. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts. The guide features a glossary of botanical terms, straightforward identification keys, clear photos of the leaves, flowers and stems of the plant, and includes notes on Aboriginal plant usage. If you are a nature lover, planning to walk in the Victorian High Country, this book is an essential addition to your backpack.
Author : teNeues Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783898651141
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Victorian Country Flowers Diary 2002 written by teNeues Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : teNeues Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783898652650
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Victorian Country Flowers Desk Calendar written by teNeues Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverly Seaton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934532
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Language of Flowers written by Beverly Seaton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the nineteenth-century uses of flowers in everyday life and in ceremonies and rituals and provides a brief history of floral symbolism. She also discusses the sentimental flower book, a genre especially intended for female readers. Two especially valuable features of the book are its table of correlations of flowers and their meanings from different sourcebooks and its complete bibliography of language of flower titles. This book will appeal not only to scholars in Victorian studies and women's studies but also to art historians, book collectors, museum curators, historians of horticulture, and anyone interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.
Author : Tatiana Holway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911169
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Flower of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Author : Andrew Clayton-Payne
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781841880778
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Victorian Flower Gardens written by Andrew Clayton-Payne and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque tumbledown cottages, their gardens ablaze with roses, delphiniums, and hollyhocks, inspired a whole generation of Victorian artists. 130 inspired works by painters such as Helen Allingham, Claude Strachan, and David Woodlock, along with forty others, compose a fascinating and splendid historical record of the flowers and features that characterized the Victorian English country garden. "...a cornucopia of entrancing watercolors."--The Field. "As happy a book as you are likely to meet."--Arts Review.
Author : teNeues Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783898652018
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady Calendar written by teNeues Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Terry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780713911459
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book A Victorian Flower Album written by Henry Terry and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Common Wayside Flowers written by Thomas Miller and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345525566
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Language of Flowers written by Vanessa Diffenbaugh and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But an unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger has her questioning what’s been missing in her life. And when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Language of Flowers "Instantly enchanting . . . [Diffenbaugh] is the best new writer of the year."—Elle “I would like to hand Vanessa Diffenbaugh a bouquet of bouvardia (enthusiasm), gladiolus (you pierce my heart) and lisianthus (appreciation). In this original and brilliant first novel, Diffenbaugh has united her fascination with the language of flowers—a long-forgotten and mysterious way of communication—with her firsthand knowledge of the travails of the foster-care system. . . . This novel is both enchanting and cruel, full of beauty and anger. Diffenbaugh is a talented writer and a mesmerizing storyteller. She includes a flower dictionary in case we want to use the language ourselves. And there is one more sprig I should add to her bouquet: a single pink carnation (I will never forget you).”—Washington Post "A fascinating debut . . . Diffenbaugh clearly knows both the human heart and her plants, and she keeps us rooting for the damaged Victoria."—O Magazine "Diffenbaugh effortlessly spins this enchanting tale, making even her prickly protagonist impossible not to love."—Entertainment Weekly
Author : Jessica Roux
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524866342
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Floriography written by Jessica Roux and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th century, especially in Victorian England and the U.S., when proper etiquette discouraged open displays of emotion. Mysterious and playful, the language of flowers has roots in everything from the characteristics of the plant to its presence in folklore and history. Researched and illustrated by popular artist Jessica Roux, this book makes a stunning display piece, conversation-starter, or thoughtful gift.
Author : Geraldine Adamich Laufer
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780761120667
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Tussie-Mussies written by Geraldine Adamich Laufer and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tussie-Mussies reacquaints readers with the complex and delightful language of flowers, and the art of making them speak through Victorian "talking bouquets" called tussie-mussies. Now Tussie-Mussies is available in a stunning paperback edition. A celebration of craft, lore, and language, Tussie-Mussies is a full-color guide to tussie-mussies, how to make them, and how the symbolic meanings of flowers and herbs have developed over the centuries. Roses that are red mean only one thing-Love-while a yellow rose may range from Friendship to Jealousy. Daisies are for Innocence, ivy for Fidelity, rosemary for Remembrance. Then comes the delightful task of arranging individual flowers and herbs together to compose a specific message to a friend or loved one. A floral poet, Geraldine Laufer shows how to make 60 bouquets-tussie-mussies to declare Ardent Love, say Happy Birthday, celebrate a Newborn, mark an Anniversary, honor a Mentor, admit an Infatuation, or even announce a Bitter Rivalry. Indeed, any sentiment can be crafted with a few blooms, woolen yarn, and scissors.
Author : William Rowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486262553
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Floral Illustrations written by William Rowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 750 sharply detailed, royalty-free illustrations ? superbly reproduced from engravings in rare periodicals ? include meticulous renderings of columbine, aster, morning glory, lady's slipper, dandelion, iris, and other magnificent blossoms, all ready to add antique flair to almost any graphic project.
Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300034721
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Country House written by Mark Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
