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UNGOVERNABLE: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Childrenby Therese OneillMonday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. |
Two years ago, Therese Oneill burst onto the scene with the New York Times bestselling UNMENTIONABLE, a hilarious and scandalously honest guide to life as a Victorian lady.
Therese Oneill is back with UNGOVERNABLE: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children. In UNGOVERNABLE, Therese invites you to “set yourselves free from the agonizing pressures of twenty-first-century parenting” and take a trip back in time to learn about the backwards, pseudoscientific, and downright bizarre childrearing fashions of the nineteenth century.
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Sourced from actual advice books of the era, UNGOVERNABLE advises you on:
- How to be sure you’re not too ugly, sickly, or stupid to breed
- Which positions and room decor will help you conceive a son
- How much beer, wine, cyanide, and heroin to consume while pregnant
- How to select the best peasant teat for your child
- Which foods won’t turn your children into sexual deviants
- How to choose the best birching cane
- And so much more
Endlessly surprising, wickedly funny, and filled with juicy historical tidbits and images, Ungovernable provides much-needed perspective on -- and comic relief from -- the age-old struggle to bring up baby.