Author Signing: Jessica Roux
Sat, Jun 01
|Plenty Downtown Bookshop
Meet the incredibly talented Tennessee-based Illustrator, Jessica Roux
Time & Location
Jun 01, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Plenty Downtown Bookshop, 48 W Broad St, Cookeville, TN 38501, USA
Guests
About the event
We are so excited to host illustrator Jessica Roux to the bookshop for a signing. This has been on our bucket list since we opened! We have all loved her book, Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers, it's been a constant bestseller, and we are incredibly excited that she's agreed to come visit us here in Cookeville!
Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th century, especially in Victorian England and the U.S., when proper etiquette discouraged open displays of emotion. Mysterious and playful, the language of flowers has roots in everything from the characteristics…