"In medieval Latin, a florilegium (plural: florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work."
— Florilegium, Wikipedia.
The Florilegium Collection is a 5-part layout collection that celebrates female writers from different cultures and periods of history. These layouts are made with these poets, novelists, short story writers and playwrights as the muse, featuring not only their biographies but their works and related content as well. This collection portrays these notable women through various imageries and aesthetics of known female figures (fictional or otherwise) that embody and parallel the qualities of their Magnum Opus.
This layout collection aims to not only promote the wondrous legacies of these brilliant artists, but also to encourage other modern artists on the site to live out their own paths and create their own legacies. If you believe you have your own stories to be written, feel free to use any of these layouts and pave your own way to a legendary future just like these amazing women!
Part One: A Diary Entry / Monologue layout feauturing Sylvia Plath and a select line from her works in Valkyrie imagery.