num_pages: 307
description: 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 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 moreIrresistibly 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.) 
language: English
title: Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
publisher: Little, Brown and Company