Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong

A "lively and provocative" social history re-examining how we think of the Victorian era (Booklist).

"This fun, iconoclastic read from a British journalist and recent Ph.D. shows that stereotypes of Victorian society don't bear scrutiny. Sweet uses Victorian books, periodicals, memoirs, and advice manuals to counter the myths of a strait-laced, repressed, patriarchal, and gloomy culture." —Library Journal

"Suppose that everything we think we know about the Victorians is wrong."

So begins Inven...