Buy this book on-line HUGHES,KATHRYN: : VICTORIANS UNDONE - Tales of the flesh in the age of decorumLONDON.4TH ESTATE/HarperCollinsPublishers,2017. ISBN 9780007548361.
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Biographies will give you all the facts of their subjects' lives,but what they can't do is explain what it was like to be them - to fight for breath against constriction of a whalebone corset,or attempt to eat with decorum despite the encroachments of a particularly bushy beard.
Nowhere is this more true than Britain in the nineteenth century.For while we like to think of the Victorians as prudishly detached from their unruly bodies,the fact is that they were just as subject to the tyrannies of their flesh as we are today. Now,in 'Victorians Undone',the major-award -winning historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes reveals what it was physically like to be a man or a woman in the nineteenth-century,through a close examination of five famous,controversial or curious Victorian body parts.
Through her eyes we encounter Lady Flora Hasting's swelling belly,which sparks a scandal that almost brings young Queen Victoria's reign crashing down.We run our fingers through Charles Darwin's beard in an attempt to understand just what made men start sprouting whiskers in the 1850s. The novelist George Eliot,meanwhile,is proud that her right hand is bigger than her left,so why is her family so desperate to suppress this information? We learn how the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti takes his art in a revolutionary new direction,thanks to the bee-stung lips of his secret mistress,Fanny Cornforth. Finally we meet Fanny Adams,an eight-year- old from Hampshire whose tragic physical dissolution has come down to us in the phrase 'Sweet Fanny Adams'.
Based on a treasure trove of new archive material,groundbreaking in its methods and frequently very funny,'Victorians Undone' is a wholly original approach to life writing.You will never think of biography - or the Victorians - in quite the same way again.
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