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🐦⬛ Amelia and Mr. Fairweather
A sudden draft snuffed out one of the nearby candles, and Amelia shivered. Then—another sound, closer this time. The hair on her arms stood on end as she spun around. What she saw made her breath hitch.
The Florist of Beacon Hill
In an age when doctors treated sorrow with laudanum and despair with rest cures, Charlotte offered a gentler path—mint for consolation, rosemary for remembrance, violets for mourning.
Victorian Funerary Rites
During the Victorian era (1837–1901), funerary rites and mourning practices became highly elaborate and ritualized, reflecting the period’s attitudes toward death and social propriety.
A Pansy for Eleanor, Part 2 (of 8)
Eleanor’s heart pounded against the stiff bodice of her traveling gown. She had packed her finer clothes for a coarser cloak, hoping to conceal her identity, but it could not hide the tension in her posture, the urgency in her steps.
A Pansy for Eleanor, Part 1 (of 8)
It had been a week since she had last seen him, and in that time, she had told herself a thousand times to forget. To push away the memory of his warm gaze and how, when he said her name, it felt like a caress.
Flowers of the Frontier
The fascination with floriography was not just limited to England. It quickly spread to the United States, where Victorian women in the more established cities of the East also adopted the practice of communicating through flowers.