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People in the Victorian era usually think of beautiful dresses and horses --
No car, no underwear or horse dung.
American writer Therese Oneill uses her first book to reveal the ugly side of Victorian women's life with pleasure and humor.
As she said, "beautiful clothes are stained with soot and sweat.
The juicy feast is made of well-preserved plants and unrefrigerated animal products and then prepared with unwashed hands.
While you may be treated as a lady, it will come at the expense of being treated as a woman.
"Oneill is known for her articles on social issues and" rare history "that appear in print such as" spiritual floss "," Jezebel "and" Atlantic "and
She brings her trademark wisdom and conversational writing to places not to mention, making it both readable and interesting, as well as instructive and informative --
Comedian Amy Schumer was impressed with her irony and theme style.
As Ian Mortimer said in his 2008 history book, The Guide to Medieval England for time travelers, Oneill sees her readers as tourists of another period, focus on details that modern people may ignore or feel embarrassed to question, such as where and how to use the bathroom.
Oneill has spent a whole chapter on this, proving that poo jokes are fun and clever.
Unlike Mortimer, Oneill assumes that most of her readers are women, who are fascinated by the supposed romance of rich Victorian women's lives.
"You will arrive in the 19 th century in the name of a young woman rich, of European descent, living in Western Europe or the United States," Oneill told us . ".
While one ill does mention the life of work --
In the south of the United States, class women, farmers' wives and even female slaves often do so when comparing the lives of the rich with those of the privileged.
She first took the reader on for the day, pointing out that while your underwear is usually clean, your elegant gown is rare if you have washed it.
40 pounds thick underpants under the skirt
Because, as Oneill explains, "although no one in Victorian society is willing to admit it, a lady has to pee and" closed drawers ". . . . . . This is
"She took us through (infrequent)
Take a shower, manage your period, ask for love, sex, marriage, social etiquette, "evil" of masturbation and now-
A state of hysteria.
She often quotes advice from writers and doctors during this period
While in some cases men write as women, they are mainly men.
Most advice and social expectations range from ridiculous to angry, especially from the advice and expectations of doctors.
In most cases, however, people choose humor rather than criticism, gently reminding readers that doctors are generally not stupid, just wrong information, without proper medical research.
Oneill addresses some common misconceptions about the times, such as doctors treating female hysterical patients by using vibrators to bring orgasm.
Oneill provides convincing evidence that most well-known doctors prefer other doctors (less pleasant)
Method, and any vibration therapy is used as a non-vibration therapysexual massage.
While Victorian women have become synonymous with sexual apathy, Oneill cites several doctors who encourage mothers to prepare for their daughter's marital love and advise the groom to respect his wife.
A doctor even insisted that the proper gentleman should ensure that their wife enjoyed sex, saying, "No man has the right to defraud her of the desired part by assuming a female adult, the wedding ceremony was held successfully.
"The reader may question some conclusions of Oneill, such as hysteria patients seeking relief in a psychiatric hospital, as they are taken care of and temporarily release social expectations, however, no one can ever read the book in a more polluted, but perhaps more sympathetic, light-seeing past days.
Catherine Cardwell is a writer in Winnipeg.