The Tumbrel Diaries

Future scholars of the better florists of Edwardian London may well be indebted to Violet W. Stevenson, whose Successful Flower Market...

In chapter 20 of Moths (1880), the curious novel by “Ouida,” the self-styled Marie Louise de la Ramée, a great singer, Monsieur de Corrèze,...

I may have over-emphasized the cumbersome character of the exotic “shower and châtelaine” floral bouquets that were hauled through Buc...

When at length, after the end of the Great War, evening Courts resumed at Buckingham Palace a number of reforms were wisely institut...