Women of Victorian England. From ideal to vice

XIX century ... few of the romantic young ladies did not dream of living in that time: gallant gentlemen, beautiful dresses, balls, poems, walks in the crews ... But what is a woman in a society in which the doctors seriously believed that all the organs making a woman excellent From men, are ... pathology? Or where were the students of prestigious boarding houses kept on bread and water, and as a result, anorexics were released into the upper light?
Such horrors are not fiction, but carefully stored, but fixed by the history of Great Britain, the secrets that the authors pulled into the world in this fundamental work.
However, this book is unique for other reasons. The life of an English woman - from titled persons to ordinary workers - is shown here through the prism of customs, superstitions, fashion, love connections and even secret vices. We will consider not only dresses and hats, but also the underwear of the 19th century. And also - treat ourselves with soups, pies, biscuits and other traditional treats, preparing them at home according to the recipes given in the text