I finally got one, a whole year later, and have been devouring it over the past couple of weeks, around my other commitments.
So when ‘Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners’ by Therese Oneill came out in October 2016 I was keen to get myself a copy. I don’t know if this is true, but it makes a nice hypothesis.īecause I also enjoy learning about history and culture I have developed a bit of a fascination with learning about Victorian lifestyles – social rules, how households operated, the minutiae of daily life, the sharp delineations between social ranks and massive differences in how the people of each social tier lived – and I am slowly amassing a collection of books on the subject. I read something online once which suggested that the popularity of Victoriana is because there’s some sort of cultural nostalgia around romanticising the recent past ‘just out of view’ – ie close enough to relate to and find information about, but long enough ago that we have forgotten what it was really like, and can easily ignore the unpleasant bits.
Like many people, I have a fondness for reading stories set in the Victorian era/Nineteenth century, including realistic representations, steampunk and other alternate versions (side-rec – go read Gail Carriger’s Parasol-verse books if you haven’t yet). I mentioned the other day that I was currently reading ‘Unmentionable’ by Therese Oneill and rather wanted to talk about it, so here goes.
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