Ep. 9 - Dangerous and Deadly Victorian Fashion

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Genevieve discusses how Tuberculosis influenced fashion, hazardous beauty routines, deadly hatpins, the dangers of corsets, and strange, kind of gross beauty trends, as well as some really weird and intriguing facts about Victorian fashion. References for today's episode: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/ https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/ https://thevictorianhistorian.com/beauty-fashion/ https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leeds-mercury-death-of-matilda/30613252/?locale=en-US https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_green https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era. Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:23.4	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
0:31.0	is advised.
0:46.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this, my ninth episode. I am so glad to hear that many of you enjoyed the format of my last episode, where I read a few of the most disturbing and sexy articles I
0:53.0	could find in the Illustrated Police News from 1871.
0:56.4	I think I'll be doing that more often because it's so much fun to dig into those twisted
1:00.9	little stories. And if there's anything else you particularly enjoy about this podcast,
1:06.1	please let me know at my Victorian nightmare at gmail.com. Or if you're listening on YouTube, feel free to leave a
1:13.0	comment there. I read all of those and cherish them, even the ones that are yelling at me. I don't
1:19.0	respond to them because they hurt my feelings, but I do appreciate the spirit. This includes corrections.
1:26.5	Please feel free to give corrections if I'm
1:28.5	mistaken about anything. Apparently in last week's episode, I incorrectly pronounced
1:33.2	Peshdigo, Wisconsin. I think that's the right way to say it. I think I pronounced it Pesthigo.
1:39.2	Please feel free to let me know if I misspeak. I will be very embarrassed. It will be very embarrassing for me,
1:46.1	but I'm here to learn new things. I'm not an expert. I'm not a professional historian. I'm just
1:51.7	someone who loves this stuff and wants to learn more. That's really what this is all about. So all
1:56.6	corrections, welcome. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Instagram where I will be
2:01.5	posting images from today's show and nothing says Genevieve. I love falling asleep to your
2:06.8	podcast better than ratings on Spotify. Those ratings are keeping the podcast alive. I'm up to 70
2:13.9	and they're all five stars. I just can't with that.
2:18.1	It really makes me want to cry.
2:19.8	As long as folks keep letting me know they enjoy the podcast by rating it on Spotify and on Apple
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