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Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world's most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid, an especially vaunted flower native to Brazil, Bilston reveals the enormous human and environmental cost of a colonial obsession.

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Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world's most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid, an especially vaunted flower native to Brazil, Bilston reveals the enormous human and environmental cost of a colonial obsession.
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Autorenporträt
Sarah Bilston is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College. She is the author of The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood and The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture, as well as the novels Sleepless Nights and Bed Rest.