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Pratt first rose to prominence with Wild Flowers of the Year, published in 1852–1853, which was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the monarch's permission. [2] Pratt composed more than 20 books, which she illustrated with chromolithographs, on which she collaborated with William Dickes, an engraver skilled in the chromolithograph process.
The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in between the early 1860s and mid to late 1890s, [1] centering taboo material shocking to its readers as a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.
It was published in 2011 by Ballantine Books. [1] The novel follows the fraught life of a Victoria Jones, who by the age of 18, had lived in 32 foster homes, and becomes a flower arranger. [2] The novel was inspired by a flower dictionary, a type of Victorian-era book which defines what different types of flowers mean. [3]
List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication; List of children's books made into feature films; List of Christian novels; List of comic books; Lists of dictionaries; Lists of encyclopedias; List of fantasy novels; List of gay male teen novels; List of Glagolitic ...
James Shirley Hibberd (1825 – 16 November 1890) was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era.He was a best-selling editor of three gardening magazines, including Amateur Gardening, the only 19th-century gardening magazine still being published today.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
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A Humument: A treated Victorian novel is an altered book by British artist Tom Phillips, published in its first edition in 1970 and completed in 2016. It is a piece of art created over W H Mallock 's 1892 novel A Human Document whose title results from the partial deletion of the original title: A Hum an doc ument .