Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, & Manners

“If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for most fascinating book ever, the whole gig is rigged.” Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we’ve always wanted to know about the Victorian era but didn’t think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the Victorian human body? Checkmate.

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