It often seems that the Victorians are used as a byword for negative and restrictive practices, whether repressed sexuality, hypocrisy, cruelty, working conditions, ostentatious sentimentality or even chintzy décor. But how true and accurate a picture is this of the age? And how much do these assumptions reflect upon our own? This entertaining and well-researched book shows our predecessors in a different light and dispels the 'modestly covered piano leg' myth once and for all.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 66 Autumn 2012 ) |
