Xena Blankenship sips her tea during a Victorian manners and etiquette class at the Historic Hormel House Saturday morning June 23, 2012 in Austin, Minn. The Blankenships are from Spring Valley, Minn.
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 ...
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 ...