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What the Victorians Didn’t Want You to Know

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners. Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset by Therese Oneill, Leigh Summers

July 17, 2017 by Ale Leave a Comment

What the Victorians Didn’t Want You to Know

Many thanks to faintingviolet for passing off Unmentionable to me. It was an excellent compliment to Bound to Please, and reading the two together helped create a uniquely full picture for what life was like for the middle-class Victorian woman. It was bad. Plain and simple. While it can be argued that pestilence, disease, a lack of flush toilets, and leeches being the closest thing to an antibiotic made life tough for everyone, these books shed an undoubted truth that however difficult it was for the males in society, it was far worse for women. Since beginning research on the 19th Century about eight […]

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7/17/2017 Ale's CBR9 Review No:16 |
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| Tags: corset, fashion history, feminism, oneill, summers, victorian society, Women's History | Category: Non-Fiction | 0 Comments


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