logo
episode-header-image
Sep 2020
40m 48s

Floriography: The Victorian Language of...

Dressed Media
About this episode

Daffodils for your unrequited love, lavender for your sworn enemy. This week author and illustrator Jessica Roux joins us to discuss how the Victorians used the symbolism of flowers as a means of communication.

Recommended Reading:

  • Roux, Jessica. Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020.

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Up next
Yesterday
An Interview with "Gernreich Girl" Barbara Flood (Dressed Classic)
In this 2021 episode, Barbara Flood joined us to discuss her passion for fashion that spans her 1960s and 70s modeling career as a "Gernreich Girl" into the present day. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 o ... Show More
46m 23s
Jul 9
Dressed in History: 100 Years of Collecting Fashion with Jessica Pushor
Recorded live at the Chicago History Museum, “librarian of clothing” Jessica Pushor takes us behind the seams of her exhibition Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective. On view at the museum until July 27th, 2025, the exhibition celebrates the museum’s incredible 5 ... Show More
1h 8m
Jul 4
On the Dressed Bookshelf
The Dressed Bookshelf has over 150 fashion history titles and counting! This week, we highlight some our favorite recent additions. Books discussed in the episode: Azzedine Alaia: A Couturier’s Collection Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dicke ... Show More
37m 20s
Recommended Episodes
Jun 2021
Des mots en fleurs de Marie Colot
Comme chaque semaine, nous vous présentons un livre jeunesse. Aujourd'hui, Victor Dhollande vous conseille "Des mots en fleurs" de Marie Colot. 
1m 52s
Nov 2023
Author Interview: Joanna Moorhead's "Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington"
Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Joanna Moorhead about her fantastic new biography, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington. The Briti ... Show More
39m 9s
Jul 2024
Cath Kidston: the floral-obsessed entrepreneur on why life isn’t always a bed of roses
There’s barely an oilcloth, mug or ironing board cover that hasn’t been embellished with a nostalgic floral print from Cath Kidston. Because of the brand’s ubiquity, it’s easy to forget quite how influential it was when it appeared in the 1990s. What I love about Cath is that she ... Show More
1h 2m
Mar 2023
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022). An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, Professor Rosenberg has contributed book c ... Show More
1h 4m
Dec 2016
Ep. 81The best in books & reading for 2016 with Jessica Turner and Laura Tremaine
'Tis the season for year-end lists of favorites! We've invited blogger and author Jessica Turner back to Sorta Awesome to join Laura in talking all things book and reading for 2016. They dish on buzzed books that fell flat for them, what books they are giving as gifts, and what t ... Show More
1h 8m
Sep 2021
Interview with Crystal Wilkinson
In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Crystal Wilkinson about her book, Perfect Black, which out now from the University of Kentucky Press.Thanks to our sponsors!Sign-up now and browse more Literary Events and Workshops at literatureandpen.com!Check out our Patreon page to le ... Show More
35m 42s
Dec 2020
SYMHC Classics: Roses Through Time
This 2017 episode revisits roses, which humans have painted, written about, and assigned symbolic meaning for centuries. But this much-beloved flower predates mankind, and it's a little difficult to track our early relationship with cultivating it. Learn more about your ad-choice ... Show More
35m 23s
Nov 2021
Andrea Penrose, "Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens" (Kensington, 2021)
Great Britain’s Regency Era (1811–1820) has long been wildly popular as a subject of historical fiction yet overly focused on the romance genre. The towering figures of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer have tended to dominate the field to the point where even novels that are not p ... Show More
41m 14s
Apr 2022
Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning
How do you speak with your mother when she’s forgotten who you are? By turning to myth, it seems, and by holding gentleness with bewilderment, love with patience. Rita Dove lets us overhear a phone call, and in this listening, we hear lifetimes unfold.Rita Dove was U.S. Poet Laur ... Show More
14m 58s
May 2023
511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell
Jacke talks to Alison Strayer, translator of several books by French author Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. PLUS he talks to author and Chekhov expert Bob Blaisdell about his choice for the last book he will ever read.ANNIE ERNAUX (The Years, Getting ... Show More
41m 47s
Listen to millions of songs and podcasts on Anghami