Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-11-19
Books mentioned on Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language
What do you do when you want to tell someone you’re smitten with them but you live in a society so repressive decorum prevents you from even speaking such things? Why, you can say it with flowers!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a classic piece of literature that, alongside other Austen works, frequently appears in cultural discussions surrounding period media and historical lifestyle topics.
Discussed“and I wanted to ask her cuz she's, you know, like a lot of uh next women are obsessed with uh Jane Austen stuff and Sense and Sensibility and all those um series and movies and books.”
Where to get it
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a classic novel of manners that explores themes of love, reputation, and class in 19th-century England through the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Discussed“I found a quote um from uh Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen. Ooh, can you read it in character? Uh well, it's the narrator um so, sure.”
Where to get it
