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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
by Therese Oneill
Michelle Araujo's review sums up my issues with this book perfectly (although the use of American and Canadian examples didn't bother me too much).
If it hadn't been such a quick read, I'd have DNF'd it most likely. I did learn some things, but anyone who has read any history about the Victorian era beyond the fiction of the time will know much of the info contained within. The lack of clear focus, both in chapters as a whole and in their subsections, also annoyed me to no end. And the hypocritical dissing of Victorians not using proper citations being immediately followed by uncited facts (to be completely fair, there is a bibliography at the end, but not a notes section of actual citations) just made me facepalm every time.
Really, it felt like it was made more for a saucy gossipy book club read than a true non-fiction book.
If it hadn't been such a quick read, I'd have DNF'd it most likely. I did learn some things, but anyone who has read any history about the Victorian era beyond the fiction of the time will know much of the info contained within. The lack of clear focus, both in chapters as a whole and in their subsections, also annoyed me to no end. And the hypocritical dissing of Victorians not using proper citations being immediately followed by uncited facts (to be completely fair, there is a bibliography at the end, but not a notes section of actual citations) just made me facepalm every time.
Really, it felt like it was made more for a saucy gossipy book club read than a true non-fiction book.