Therese Oneill's new Unmentionable is a snarkily informal history of the difficulty of being a woman in the Victorian Era, hemmed in from head to... Victorian manners occupy a space both sublimely ...

Have you ever read a love scene in a historical romance novel and wondered, "But what about the smell? What do they do when they're on their periods??" Of course you have, because let's be real — in ...

Victorian manners occupy a space both sublimely funny and quietly horrific. With deeply specific and often counter-intuitive advice, Victorian pundits attempted to establish class markers and ...