Unmentionable : The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
(2016)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Little, Brown and Company, 2016
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ISBN/ISSN
9780316358040 MWT17371893, 0316358045 17371893
LANGUAGE
English
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Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ̃ What to wear ̃ Where to relieve yourself ̃ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ̃ What to expect on your wedding night ̃ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ̃ Why masturbating will kill you ̃ And more Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)

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