Therese Oneill lives in Oregon and writes humor and rare history articles for many different popular outlets, including Mental Floss, The Week, The Atlantic, andJezebel. She lives with her husband and children near Portland. She can be found online atwww.writerthereseoneill.com where she runs a popular history and narrative blog.
"Unmentionable transports us back to the world of middle-class
19th-century women, with special emphasis on the messy details that
costume dramas airbrush out...With a 4-year-old's scatological
glee, Oneill details the logistics of old-time peeing, pooping,
gestating, menstruating and mating...For Oneill, Victorian time
travel is a tour of horrors that makes us thankful to come home to
tampons and toilets."--New York Times
"A fascinating look into the shocking pseudoscience of the 1800s,
in which Oneill sheds new light on the origins of today's misogyny,
double standards, and just plain mystery surrounding women that,
maddeningly enough, persist."--Booklist
"Flat-out hysterical (and occasionally alarming)...Read it and be
very, very glad you're a woman of modern times."--Good
Housekeeping
"Oneill uncovers the filthy, untidy, licentious conditions of
nineteenth-century women's lives that novelists of the period often
glossed over...brilliantly conveyed with fascinating
illustrations."--Elle
"Hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating. This book is full
of awesome."--Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy
"If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most
Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Hilarious,
horrifying, shocking and revelatory, this book is for every girl
who pictured herself running through a field of wildflowers in a
silk dress and Little House on the Prairie boots, only to discover
she has nits in her hair, her clothes have never been washed and
she sleeps with her poop under her bed in a bowl. A miracle of a
book and one of my favorite reads ever, Unmentionable will be my
go-to gift this year. All hail Therese Oneill for uncovering all of
that dirty, dirty laundry."--Laurie Notaro, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of It Looked Different on the Model and
Housebroken
"If you've ever felt like you should have been born in another
time, Unmentionable will disabuse you of that sensibility, and it
will do so charmingly."--Vice/Broadly
"Oh, did Constant Reader's heart lift after turning page the first.
It's hard to imagine a woman - or a teenage girl - who won't love
this book."--The Washington Post
"Oneill has created a book so excellently informative about the
Victorian period, it should be shelved right next to Dickens for
reference. Your stomach will hurt so much from laughing, you'll be
thankful you're not wearing a corset."--Bustle
"Oneill writes from the perspective of an all-knowing, slightly
cheeky Victorian woman giving guidance to the contemporary woman.
The result is a thoroughly researched but hilarious look into daily
life of the Victorian woman." --The Millions
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