unmentionable the victorian lady's guide

It's hard to imagine a woman - or a teenage girl - who won't love this book.'- The Washington Post 'Oh, did Constant Reader's heart lift after turning page the first. With a 4-year-old's scatological glee, Oneill details the logistics of old-time peeing, pooping, gestating, menstruating and mating.For Oneill, Victorian time travel is a tour of horrors that makes us thankful to come home to tampons and toilets.'- New York Times 'Unmentionable transports us back to the world of middle-class 19th-century women, with special emphasis on the messy details that costume dramas airbrush out. ' Oneill uncovers the filthy, untidy, licentious conditions of nineteenth-century women's lives that novelists of the period often glossed over.brilliantly conveyed with fascinating illustrations.'- Elle

This book is full of awesome.'- Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy 'Hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating. (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.) 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. 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! 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.

Unmentionable the victorian lady's guide