The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

Here's an encore of our 2008 homage to the delightfully diabolical "Gashlycrumb Tinies," Edward Gorey's famed spoof on Victorian alphabet primers. Gorey's collection of couplets, which he wrote and ...

Victorian Periodicals Review publishes articles and reviews about the history of nineteenth-century British periodicals that reflect interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the ways in which ...