Chris Woodyard The two years of the title is often cited as the required time for a widow to mourn for her husband – there’s a popular trope that all Victorian widows wore full black with crape veils for two solid years. The reality is much more nuanced, depending on the year and the etiquetteContinue reading “‘Two Years of Sable Gloom’: The Stages of Victorian Mourning”
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Life is a Flower: Memory and Memorial in the Language of 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”
Grave Matters 