Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 53)

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desertcart.com: Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 53): 9780521123563: Michie, Helena: Books Review: Tremendous Insight into Intimate Personal Life in Victorian Era - If you think you know what the Victorian Era was all about, get this book and read the deeply personal thoughts from diaries and letter or REAL PEOPLE, not just the 1% at the top of the food chain. Makes you realize how humans have been human for such a long time, and how their brief lives were so tragic for the simple things we take for granted, like clean water, hygiene, women who can travel and enjoy their honeymoon with their husband, and not having an entire life end when a woman married and became part of the husbands family and chattel goods! This is the darker side of the Jane Austen epilogues. If as a STEM grad I can get choked up reading this, you know it really hits home!! Review: This is a wonderful exploration of Victorian culture. Anyone who has wondered about what did happen between Ruskin and Effie Gray, or Dorothea and Casaubon can find some interesting information here. Well written and very informative, this is an excellent book.