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A review by labunnywtf
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
3.0
Read for Book Roast's Magical Readathon: NEWTs Exams. Subject: Ancient Runes, A Level. (Set in the Past)
Another reviewer here said that this author took the worst bits of Victorian history and rumor and dragged them out for this book.
To which I reply, isn't that the whole point?
Perhaps I'm being a brat. I picked up this book specifically because I wanted the salacious, outdated, utterly insane ways women acted and were treated in the 19th century. If I'd gotten anything less, I would've been sincerely disappointed.
Props to the author, I say. She compiled an enormous amount of information for this book, and presented it in a hilariously snarky way. This could certainly have gone very dry, and repetitive. But there's charm, and humor. If I'd read a physical copy of the book, I'd have flown through it. Ebooks really drag me down in speed.
I'm coming away with way too much useless information, including all of the ways 19th century women could come down with consumption. And, of course, hysteria. And also that masturbation turns women into vampire harpies. I'm going to remember that phrase for YEARS.
So much fun.
Another reviewer here said that this author took the worst bits of Victorian history and rumor and dragged them out for this book.
To which I reply, isn't that the whole point?
Perhaps I'm being a brat. I picked up this book specifically because I wanted the salacious, outdated, utterly insane ways women acted and were treated in the 19th century. If I'd gotten anything less, I would've been sincerely disappointed.
Props to the author, I say. She compiled an enormous amount of information for this book, and presented it in a hilariously snarky way. This could certainly have gone very dry, and repetitive. But there's charm, and humor. If I'd read a physical copy of the book, I'd have flown through it. Ebooks really drag me down in speed.
I'm coming away with way too much useless information, including all of the ways 19th century women could come down with consumption. And, of course, hysteria. And also that masturbation turns women into vampire harpies. I'm going to remember that phrase for YEARS.
So much fun.