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Author Kirkby, Mandy.

Title A Victorian flower dictionary : the language of flowers companion / Mandy Kirkby ; with an introduction by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.

Imprint New York : Ballantine Books, ©2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  808.803 KIR    Check Shelf
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 187 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Note "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan"--Title page verso.
Contents Fifty Featured Flowers -- The Dictionary -- Flowers for Specific Occasions.
Summary 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. Kirkby shares the historical literary, and cultural significance of flowers.
Subject Flower language -- Dictionaries.
Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Dictionaries.
Flowers -- Folklore -- Dictionaries.
Flowers -- Dictionaries.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Miscellanea.
Arts, Victorian -- Miscellanea.
Flowers in literature.
English poetry -- 19th century.
Blume.
Symbol.
Arts, Victorian. (OCoLC)fst00818259
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
Flower language. (OCoLC)fst00927846
Flowers. (OCoLC)fst00927866
Flowers in literature. (OCoLC)fst00927913
Flowers -- Symbolic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01430351
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1800-1901
Genre/Form Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
Added Author Diffenbaugh, Vanessa. Language of flowers.
ISBN 9780345532862 (alk. paper)
0345532864 (alk. paper)
9780345532879 (ebook)
0345532872 (ebook)
9780345532961
0345532961
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