Dear Worried Violet: An Anthology of Advice Moral, Medical and Miscellaneous - Hardcover

Hawthorne, Rosemary

 
9781862052413: Dear Worried Violet: An Anthology of Advice Moral, Medical and Miscellaneous
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1862052417 ISBN 13: 9781862052413
Verlag: Pavilion, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

"I am fifteen and taken for ten. What can I do?" Worried Violet answers in 1893, "There is no need to despair, dear. There is plenty of time for you to grow yet. Practice swinging by your arms everyday." Such is the no-nonsense advice dispensed by the agony aunts of yesteryear. Brisk and practical, and advocating vigorous exercise as the cure for most emotional ills, these formidable Victorian and Edwardian aunties allayed the fears of generations of anxious young Englishwomen. Dear Worried Violet . . . takes a peek at the problem pages of times past, revealing that although society has changed immeasurably in the last 150 years, human desires and fears have not. Although the wisdom of yesterday's agony aunts today provokes laughter, beneath the quaint language often lie some gems of truth.

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Verlag
Pavilion
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1862052417
ISBN 13 
9781862052413
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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