Flower Lore, from the review's description, is exactly what it sounds like, a book detailing different kinds of flowers and their meanings, accompanied by illustrations. Mrs. Paterson, they write, has inherited her father's gift with words, but her talent is only acknowledged side by side with his and other famous male writer's, and never of its own accord. The passage that caught my eye in this review, that I have attached, informs readers that this is the perfect gift for one of the "gentle sex" of women. The study of flowers is a perfectly acceptable path for a young Victorian woman to tread, perhaps because of the association of women and nature, or the association of flowers and other feminine tasks like embroidery. Interestingly, the review does go on to list other writers who have written about flowers, and here the are plenty of women's names attached to the study.