Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners [Paperback]

TheNew York Timesbestselling, hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating (Jenny Lawson) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood.

Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19^thcentury, 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 (though never crass), illustrated guide to life as a Victorian lady, offering 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, 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 ecstaticallygrateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)

Therese Oneill lives in Oregon and writes humor and rare history articles for many different popular outlets, includingMental Floss, The Week, The Atlantic, andJezebel. She lives with her husband and children near Portland. She can be found online atwww.writerthereseoneill.comwhere she runs a popular history and narrative blog. Hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating.This book is full of awesome. Jenny Lawson, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofLet's Pretend This Never HappenedandFuriously Happy Oneill uncovers the filthy,l£Ý