Queen Victoria's Not So
"VICTORIAN" Writings
Illustrated article about what
Queen Victorian "really thought about pregnancy, children,
marriage, and men. |
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. |
Diet and Drinks of Nursing
Women
Godey's
magazine in 1860 tells the Victorian mother what she should eat
and drink. |
Private Lectures on Perfect Men, Women and Children
In 1880,
Professor Fowler explains the relevancy of posture in expressing
sexual states. |
The Touch
Classic
illustration of a woman's medical exam by a her doctor. |
Triumph (poem)
A scorned
Victorian women gets even. |
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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