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Unmentionable
- The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
- Narrateur(s): Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Durée: 7 h et 12 min
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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. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.)
Unmentionable is your hilarious, 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, Unmentionable will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlett 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, superabsorbency tampons, epidurals, antidepressants, and not dying of the syphilis your husband brought home.)
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- Alex
- 2021-08-21
Enlightening and Humorous!
I enjoyed travelling back in time and learning all there is to know about surviving as a lady in the 19th century! It really makes you appreciate all the hard work women did back then. As well as finding a new appreciation for the women who fought for all women and what our world is now in the 21st century. Very well written and read!
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- Lynne Rutledge
- 2022-02-06
Enjoyable pop history
Great look at everyday life for a specific section of Victorian society. Love the tone of the writing, and the performance really compliments it.
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- Robert Hoskins
- 2023-05-20
Waist of my time
nothing of substance here. Just rambling on about nothing. Nothing of substance. I didn't find it interesting
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