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.

Therese Oneill

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.

UNGOVERNABLE: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children

by Therese Oneill

Monday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m.

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