Your cut-out-and-keep guide to Strange Flowers’ cover stars:
strange flowers in literature
Corvo as Hadrian VII
William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck’s Welbeck Abbey
Herbert Charles Pollitt a.k.a. Diane de Rougy
Missy
Max Tilke’s Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors
The Pleasure Garden
collage
La Belle Otero
Sissi (specifically, Sissi’s horses)
Arthur Cravan
Raymond Roussel
Belle Époque
Brian Howard
Kaspar Hauser
Fearless Nadia
Lady Hester Stanhope
Kabuki
Edith Sitwell
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