Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology (Author Tool Chest)
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Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology (Author Tool Chest)
Sale price
$32.99
Regular price $39.99
How could flowers or hand-held fans be used as a means of covert communications? It sounds odd, maybe extreme, or possibly comical. However, once that was the case. Throughout history, sometimes women in particular were discouraged (to say the least) from speaking in public places. Actually, that was most of the time.
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Those circumstances resulted in cryptological languages, or secret codes. Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology explores two such codes, 1) Floriography, or the language of flowers, and 2) Fanology, the language of fans. The book is organized into a variety of interesting categories. It also defines the “secret codes” and gives examples. All this is illustrated by beautiful paintings from the eras when these languages were most used.
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This volume is part of Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene’s “Author Tool Chest” collection of resource and reference books. While writers are an intended audience for these nonfiction works, they are useful and entertaining for nonauthors as well. Readers have used them to make up their own games and for dinner party conversations. Although this is not a scholarly work, students and scholars find interesting topics and jumping-off points for additional research.
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Those circumstances resulted in cryptological languages, or secret codes. Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology explores two such codes, 1) Floriography, or the language of flowers, and 2) Fanology, the language of fans. The book is organized into a variety of interesting categories. It also defines the “secret codes” and gives examples. All this is illustrated by beautiful paintings from the eras when these languages were most used.
.
This volume is part of Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene’s “Author Tool Chest” collection of resource and reference books. While writers are an intended audience for these nonfiction works, they are useful and entertaining for nonauthors as well. Readers have used them to make up their own games and for dinner party conversations. Although this is not a scholarly work, students and scholars find interesting topics and jumping-off points for additional research.