I need a .pdf, .epub or something
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I need a .pdf, .epub or something
heck yeah pteridomania! one of my favorite Victorian fads!
(i loved how Maryrose Wood included it in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, along with velocipedes and a few other popularities. I notice it all the time now)
(i loved how Maryrose Wood included it in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, along with velocipedes and a few other popularities. I notice it all the time now)
May 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
heck yeah pteridomania! one of my favorite Victorian fads!
(i loved how Maryrose Wood included it in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, along with velocipedes and a few other popularities. I notice it all the time now)
(i loved how Maryrose Wood included it in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, along with velocipedes and a few other popularities. I notice it all the time now)
If it's REALLY old (like pre-1890s), it could be a fernery. I see it gets decent light from a window. The Victorians were so obsessed with ferns that they had a name for it (pteridomania).
September 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If it's REALLY old (like pre-1890s), it could be a fernery. I see it gets decent light from a window. The Victorians were so obsessed with ferns that they had a name for it (pteridomania).
This #OccupationOfTheDay also offers a welcome opportunity to throw in the word PTERIDOMANIA, or 'fern madness', dating back to a 19thC craze for keeping ferns, & for putting fern motifs on items #history
Reportedly where Custard Creams get their design from 👇
www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pt...
Reportedly where Custard Creams get their design from 👇
www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pt...
Pteridomania - Fern Madness
A great Victorian craze, Pteridomania was the huge love affair for ferns and all things fern-like in Britain between the 1840s and 1890s...
www.historic-uk.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM
This #OccupationOfTheDay also offers a welcome opportunity to throw in the word PTERIDOMANIA, or 'fern madness', dating back to a 19thC craze for keeping ferns, & for putting fern motifs on items #history
Reportedly where Custard Creams get their design from 👇
www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pt...
Reportedly where Custard Creams get their design from 👇
www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pt...
Medieval churches, pteridomania and custard creams: in the latest instalment of 'Unfurling', @golowmor.bsky.social considers ferns’ lasting entanglement with the idea of beauty 🌿✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/unfu...
August 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Medieval churches, pteridomania and custard creams: in the latest instalment of 'Unfurling', @golowmor.bsky.social considers ferns’ lasting entanglement with the idea of beauty 🌿✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/unfu...
Pteridomania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
Pteridomania - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 10, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Pteridomania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
Pteridomania! There were a couple of decades in high Victorian age when the whole country went nuts for ferns. Ferns were on EVERYTHING! So much so it is thought some of our native species came close to extinction... whatever would Wordsworth have thought!
February 25, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Pteridomania! There were a couple of decades in high Victorian age when the whole country went nuts for ferns. Ferns were on EVERYTHING! So much so it is thought some of our native species came close to extinction... whatever would Wordsworth have thought!
pteridomania lives on, my fronds!
A coalition of 36 herbaria across the United States have teamed up to create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants ✨ ferns ✨ called the PteridoPortal.
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol...
Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
pteridomania lives on, my fronds!
Our College around 1900, showing rooms filled with ferns. This was during the fern fever (also known as Pteridomania) of the Victorian period. Fern collecting was a hugely popular pastime and was even rumoured to enhance virility and improve mental health
September 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Our College around 1900, showing rooms filled with ferns. This was during the fern fever (also known as Pteridomania) of the Victorian period. Fern collecting was a hugely popular pastime and was even rumoured to enhance virility and improve mental health
Ghouls, what does the sublime, the British Empire and custard creams all have in common? Pteridomania, baby!
On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble
On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble
July 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ghouls, what does the sublime, the British Empire and custard creams all have in common? Pteridomania, baby!
On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble
On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble
TIL that the decoration on Custard Creams is a fern motif and is an example of the Victorian craze for ferns (pteridomania).
July 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
TIL that the decoration on Custard Creams is a fern motif and is an example of the Victorian craze for ferns (pteridomania).
I made something.
It's a diagnosis:
Late stage Pteridomania (fern fever).
Also: I really want a Wardian Case
Fern crazed.
It's a diagnosis:
Late stage Pteridomania (fern fever).
Also: I really want a Wardian Case
Fern crazed.
September 13, 2023 at 7:59 PM
I made something.
It's a diagnosis:
Late stage Pteridomania (fern fever).
Also: I really want a Wardian Case
Fern crazed.
It's a diagnosis:
Late stage Pteridomania (fern fever).
Also: I really want a Wardian Case
Fern crazed.
En même temps, on nageait à l'époque en pleine pteridomanie
Pteridomania - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
En même temps, on nageait à l'époque en pleine pteridomanie
L'époque victorienne: t'avais pas de numéro vert ou de site du gouvernement pour t'aider à reconnaître des signaux faibles de ptéridomanie (passion exubérante pour les fougères) chez les ados
![Your daughters, perhaps, have been seized with the prevailing 'Pteridomania' ... and wrangling over unpronounceable names of species (which seem different in each new Fern-book that they buy) ... and yet you cannot deny that they find enjoyment in it, and are more active, more cheerful, more self-forgetful over it, than they would have been over novels and gossip, crochet and Berlin-wool.[1]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h4tiqxlaess3yxdmrwhqqdwh/bafkreiduucbitarfwu3vu6gr3rsed4rdpr3efbbx6ewq47zulg5j4k2zue)
May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
L'époque victorienne: t'avais pas de numéro vert ou de site du gouvernement pour t'aider à reconnaître des signaux faibles de ptéridomanie (passion exubérante pour les fougères) chez les ados
This was the first fern of spring that I learned to identify, and look where that led #pteridomania
All of our videos on the fern playlist are less than three minutes long, but they pack a lot of great information!
#ferns #cinnamonfern #fronds #frondfriends
All of our videos on the fern playlist are less than three minutes long, but they pack a lot of great information!
#ferns #cinnamonfern #fronds #frondfriends
The latest video in our fern playlist has dropped, and we had a lot of soggy-footed fun putting this together. In less than three minutes, anyone can feel confident identifying it!
#ferns #livingfossil #cinnamonferns #wetlandplants #frondfriends #fernfans
youtu.be/0FvlR-LQ5_U?...
#ferns #livingfossil #cinnamonferns #wetlandplants #frondfriends #fernfans
youtu.be/0FvlR-LQ5_U?...
Cinnamon Ferns
YouTube video by Waterman's STNY Nature
youtu.be
June 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This was the first fern of spring that I learned to identify, and look where that led #pteridomania
All of our videos on the fern playlist are less than three minutes long, but they pack a lot of great information!
#ferns #cinnamonfern #fronds #frondfriends
All of our videos on the fern playlist are less than three minutes long, but they pack a lot of great information!
#ferns #cinnamonfern #fronds #frondfriends
Ferns were HUGE in the mid 19th C. every fashionable household had many! girls of a certain class would create little pressbooks and shadow boxes, as with flowers!
they called it pteridomania, and i learned about it from the instructional book series "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place"
they called it pteridomania, and i learned about it from the instructional book series "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place"
Pteridomania - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 9, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Ferns were HUGE in the mid 19th C. every fashionable household had many! girls of a certain class would create little pressbooks and shadow boxes, as with flowers!
they called it pteridomania, and i learned about it from the instructional book series "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place"
they called it pteridomania, and i learned about it from the instructional book series "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place"
En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, existió un movimiento de señoras victorianas absolutamente obsesionadas con la colección de especímenes de helechos (pteridomania). Se cree que fue un elemento influyente en el desarrollo del ferrocarril en Reino Unido.
mairibunce.medium.com/fern-hunting...
mairibunce.medium.com/fern-hunting...
Fern Hunting: A Very Victorian Vagary
Sorry, millennials. We’re not the first generation to go mad for indoor gardening.
mairibunce.medium.com
April 22, 2026 at 8:12 AM
En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, existió un movimiento de señoras victorianas absolutamente obsesionadas con la colección de especímenes de helechos (pteridomania). Se cree que fue un elemento influyente en el desarrollo del ferrocarril en Reino Unido.
mairibunce.medium.com/fern-hunting...
mairibunce.medium.com/fern-hunting...
This song may have roots in the Pteridomania of England in the 1800s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
Pteridomania - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This song may have roots in the Pteridomania of England in the 1800s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterido...
