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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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 ecstaticallygrateful 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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• The Victorian Book of the Dead
• Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
• How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
• How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
• Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
• Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
• The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
• How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything