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

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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Community Reviews
Sticking with 4 Stars
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I'm in a cranky mood (which if I lived in the 19th century, could be from hysteria or excessive masturbation or having too much sex or having too little sex or from simply being a woman), so I'm going to review this one later. I'm putting down 4 stars for now, but that may change.
But I definitely liked it. And I startled the silence in my house by laughing out loud on more than one occasion (another thing that could have linked me to hysteria), so that's a win!
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