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A review by booksteaandchocolate
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
informative
medium-paced
1.0
I'm really disappointed and angry about this book. As someone who really adores historical non-fiction and women's history, I was really thrilled to read this. I thought the way the book was written was cute and funny. It was easy to work through. However, this book is more to poke fun of the period and reaffirms a lot of stereotypes that people have about the Victorian Era. It seems there was very little research done. I couldn't find her background to maybe help explain if maybe she just has a historical degree or is a Victorian Era researcher, but I found nothing.
I'm a little sad. Where not everything is inaccurate, it's not handled tactfully nor clearly.
I'm a little sad. Where not everything is inaccurate, it's not handled tactfully nor clearly.