CecilyPetra X wrote: "...A doctor shouldn't be suffering from false modesty. It makes me wonder what her culture was...." Goodman, Ruth (2013). "Chapter 6: Breakfast: Hunger". How to be a Victorian. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-95834-6.

A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City Davis, R. W. (1966). "The Strategy of "Dissent" in the Repeal Campaign, 1820–1828". The Journal of Modern History. 38 (4): 374–393. doi: 10.1086/239951. JSTOR 1876681. S2CID 154716174. Eisen, Sydney (1990). "The Victorian Crisis of Faith and the Faith That was Lost". In Helmstadter, Richard J.; Lightman, Bernard (eds.). Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp.2–9. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-10974-6_2. ISBN 9781349109746. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022 . Retrieved 18 October 2022.AnuradhaPetra X wrote: "Anuradha wrote: "Petra X wrote: "Of course I knew what the "vaginal attachment" was all about. I just wanted the author to write about it and not go all mealy-mouthed when it came to anything to do..." I enjoyed how Goodman included important topics like child labour and drug abuse, too. It didn't feel like just a list of information from a text book. Plus, there some photographs included, which added to the overall interest of the book. What a fabulously fascinating book! I think this is the book I've always been looking for. I've been curious for much of my life about how our forebears lived, and I've read other books trying to figure that out. But this one really goes into great detail about how a person in the Victorian era would have lived. Not only that, but Goodman also details the differences between the poorest Victorians, who may not have gotten much notice otherwise, and the richest, who are the usual focus of these sorts of books. Condoms were made from sheep guts. Apparently, once they were used, they were rinsed out and left to dry, ready for the time the man demands it. Yes, the MAN demands it. According to Goodman, it was the man's perogative to decide when he wanted sex, be it day or night, his woman had to be ready and willing. The woman was only let off if she was with child or menstruating. Some women did not feel satisfied and had strong prohibitions and opportunities to have affairs. Men had fewer prohibitions and more opportunity.

a b Houghton, Walter E. (2008). The Victorian Frame of Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press. doi: 10.12987/9780300194289. ISBN 9780300194289. S2CID 246119772. The professionalisation of scientific study began in parts of Europe following the French Revolution but was slow to reach Britain. William Whewell coined the term 'scientist' in 1833 to refer to those who studied what was generally then known as natural philosophy, but it took a while to catch on. Having been previously dominated by amateurs with a separate income, the Royal Society admitted only professionals from 1847 onwards. The British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley indicated in 1852 that it remained difficult to earn a living as a scientist alone. [48] Scientific knowledge and debates such as that about Charles Darwin's book on evolution gained a high profile. Simplified (and at times inaccurate) popular science was increasingly distributed through a variety of publications which caused tension with the professionals. [94] There were significant advances in various fields of research, including statistics, [95] elasticity, [96] refrigeration, [97] natural history, [48] electricity [98] and logic. [99] Crew stood with a railway engine (1873)Aspects of the Victorian book: Magazines for Women". British Library. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020 . Retrieved 23 October 2020. Mitchell, Sally (2011). "Music". Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.518–520. ISBN 9780415669726. a b c Porter, K; Hoppen, Theodore. "Chapters 1 to 3". The Mid-Victorian Generation: 1846–1886. pp.9–11. Bowen, Desmond (1979). " Conscience of the Victorian State, edited by Peter Marsh". Canadian Journal of History. 14 (2): 318–320. doi: 10.3138/cjh.14.2.318. ISSN 0008-4107.