Tag Archives: Flowers

The Victorian language of flowers spoke not only to the affairs of lovers, but to universal human concerns about life stages and remembrance of the departed. In this blog post, follow examples of nineteenth-century floriography that contemplate transience, memento mori and the possibility of second flowerings.   The language of flowers was a publishing craze alliedContinue reading “Life is a Flower: Memory and Memorial in the Language of Flowers”