Queen Victoria's Not So "VICTORIAN" Writings
Illustrated article about what Queen Victorian "really thought about pregnancy, children, marriage, and men. |
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A Victorian "Standard"
Article about the 19th Century publication, "The Standard." Was something sinister hid in "The Standard"? |
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Naughty But Nice
The Victorian lady is undressed in antique photographs; shown are stereoviews that depict a "naughty" but humorous side of the late Victorian era. |
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Abigail Adams and Women's Rights by Christine Haug
Fictional letter by Abigail Adams explaining to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 why women's rights should be included in the new Constitution. |
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Is the Red Nose from the Corset or Liquor?
On first reading an 1867 article against tight lacing, a modern reader might think that the publication was unusually progressive. In fact, the article hid worse tyrannies than fashion could produce -- those of hiding real problems and of teaching women to blame themselves. |
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Woman's Debility
The Doctor Warns Against Taking Cold & How to Avoid Debility: a Victorian view on menstruation. |
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Kissing Cousins
Familiarities Between Relations .... is it "ill-bred" for a Victorian gentleman to kiss his female cousins? |
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The Unsuitable Suitor of 1879
A Victorian "brush-off"- the rules and suggestions for courtship and romance occupy most of the space in Victorian etiquette and letter writing books... there is generally one curt letter of refusal to a marriage proposal. |
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Diet and Drinks of Nursing Women
Godey's magazine in 1860 tells the Victorian mother what she should eat and drink. |
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Private Lectures on Perfect Men, Women and Children
In 1880, Professor Fowler explains the relevancy of posture in expressing sexual states. |
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The Touch
Classic illustration of a woman's medical exam by a her doctor. |
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Triumph (poem)
A scorned Victorian women gets even. |
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A Whisper to a Newly Married Pair
Advice to the new husband on expenditure . . . You give your wife a certain sum of money … I really cannot see the necessity of obliging her to account to you for the exact manner in which she has laid it out. |
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Animated Gif from:
"Woman Combing her Hair" (c.1887-90) by Degas (1834-1917) (Louvre, Paris)
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