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Some Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian references, and Etiquette notes:

Kinky Etiquette

The Bride Wore Black Leather and He Looked Fabulous from Greenery Press

Modern kink for Victoriana

Victorian Lifestyle group on Fetlife

Victoriana group on Fetlife

(a href="https://fetlife.com/groups/48947">Victorian Gothic Dining ~ Etiquette and Protocols group on Fetlife

Locked party (on Hiatus)

(A protocol party. One annual theme is "Victoria's Parlor".)

Locked party group on Fetlife

Locked party group on tribe.net

Locked home

Vanilla resources on Victorian Etiquette

Regency Etiquette - The Mirror of Graces, 1811 by "A Lady of Distinction". Reprint.

Victorian Etiquette - index
Victorian Etiquette - basic rules
Victorian Etiquette - breaches

Upstairs, Downstairs, British historic television series, set 1903-1930 (Edwardian). 68 episodes over 5 seasons.

Downton Abbey, set in 1912-1920+ (Edwardian).

Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir, by Margaret Powell, 1968.

Manor House, a.k.a. The Edwardian Country House. 6 episodes. 21 modern people recreate Manor House life for 3 months.

Secrets of the Manor House Mostly about class politics.

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes.

Victorian Servants

The Complete Servant, by Samuel and Sarah Adams, 1825

Dickens Christmas Fair, annual living history event in San Francisco, Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Victorian Sexuality

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland, an underground/banned favorite of the Victorians Hysteria movie

The Foundation to Treat but not Cure Female Hysteria

Historical Medical Play

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century, by Katie Hickman

Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood, by Cynthia Eagle Russett - a critique of sexism in Victorian science and culture

The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America, by Hal D Sears

The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality, by Ronald Pearsall

Love For Sale: a World History of Prostitution, by Nils Johan Ringdal. Especially chapters 19-22

An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias -- the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community, by Louis J Kern.

The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality, by Fraser Harrison

The Green Carnation (book)

Homophobia: A History, by Byrne Fone. Part Six: Victorian Secrets

General Victoriana (vanilla)

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, from 1811-1901, by Kristine Hughes

Eating with the Victorians, edited by C. Anne Wilson

victoriansociety.tribe.net

Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America, by John F. Kasson

The Benevolence of Manners: Recapturing the Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living, (a.k.a. Simle Social Graces), by Linda S. Lichter

Victorian England, 1976
The London "Season"

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton set in 1870s New York (novel and film)

Washington Square, film based on Henry James' 1880 novel, and shows many daily assumptions of well-off late-Victorian American life.

Supersizers, a study of historic eating patterns, including Regency, VVictorian, and Edwardian.

Dance Through Time, performances and videos on Victorian and other vintage dance

Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture, 2006, David Kunzle. Views Victorian corsets as both confining and rebelious.

The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. An iconoclastic, scholarly examination of society, virtues, behavior, and morality before, during, and since the Victorian era.

Some Special People and Materials of the period

Lola Montez, adventuress

Richard Francis Burton, translator of the Kama Sutra, and 1001 Arabian Nights

Maud Allan, author of sex manual, inventer of the Dance of Seven Veils

Victoria Woodhull, sexual freedom pioneer

Jane Austen, author

Charlotte Bronte, author

Oscar Wilde, scandalous playwright, (film, 1997) biography (Salome)

Arthur Schnitzler, scandalous playwright (Reigen / La Ronde)

Aubrey Beardsley, scandalous illustrator

Anna Leonowens, English governess to the King of Siam, and author.

James Barry, a woman who lived as a male military surgeon. Also in Elizabeth Longford's Eminent Victorian Women

Beau Brummel, dandy, and inventor of modern male attire

Burlesque, invented by the Victorians

Sherlock Holmes, criminologist

History of Etiquette

The Best Behavior: The Course of Good Manners -- From Antiquity to the Present -- as Seen Through Courtesy and Etiquette Books, by Esther B. Aresty

Debret's Etiquette guides

Emily Post's Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, 1922

Modern Etiquette (vanilla)

Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, by Judith Martin


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