Victorian MN

[Blandmum]

We did this once before, but I think it has vanished?

What would we be posting?

Crinolines appeared in the 1860s but they didn't last very long.

By the mid-to-end of the Victorian era, women were wearing bustles. Most Edwardian women didn't wear bustles. This coincided with an era where skirts got progressively shorter.

Dear Mrs ahundredtimes

I would advise that your Governess bring the children down. washed and scrubbed., after nursery tea on a Sunday to be presented to their parents in the drawing room. After a kind word or scolding. as necessary. the Governess will take them upstairs to their nursery bedchamber. This will save your posture and neither will it inconvenience Mr ahundredtimes.

Yours etc. etc.,
TheDuchessOfNB
Domestic Dilemmas Page
The Lady

I cannot loosen my own stays, Mrs Axe Murderer

... and in answer to how your dh will vote in a general election, 'tis widely known in society circles that he will vote how he is told to vote by his dear lady wife.

Women hardly need the vote when men are so jolly malleable on the matter ...

Dear Miss Desiderata

I beg you to try this wonderful rescue from Dr Brown. It has cured my 17yo daughter Ellen, of all fancies.

Yours etc.
Mrs Terry

Can't talk, too busy fainting.

Oh how lovely my dear! Are you expecting your 14th or 15th?

Good housekeeping. How should I get the maid to wash the antimaccasars?

I was so shocked on my way home from an 'At Home' today. There was a thunderstorm and my Postilion was struck by lightning.

Is one being unreasonable :

If ones firstborn daughter is named Esme Victoria, ought not ones SIL lay off the Esme and stick to Gwendolyn like what she said she would?

Are we suffering a surfeit of Esmes?

Realtionships: My dh is in love with his Mother! Ever heard of this before?

Education. I understand thet dcs school has consulmtion. Should I withdraw them, or dose them up with calpol?

Has anybody read the correspondence between the Duke of Westminster and the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the defective administration of the Smoke Nuisance Act in the Metropolis..

Meet-Ups: Is this too much lace for the Christmas meet-up? What is everyone else wearing?

Oh, so sorry Ms Corpse, but I find that I am allergic to all camphorated products. They bring me up in such a rash .....

Most felicitous thanks for your kind solicitations, dearest sister of the womb ...

Phower! look at the mutton chops on this one

I quite forgot the garment! I do hope that this forgetfulness isn't an early symptom and that I shall go down with the ague?

What do you think about this new married women's property act?

I think it will cause a lot of upset in the family.

Papa wouldn't have stood for it, I can tell you

Your Grace, I am an unmarried lady! I fainted because I accidentally met the gaze of a visiting gentleman.

And are you saying I look fat in this crinoline?

Strumpet!

At what age should I allow my DD to have a gentleman caller? AIBU in expecting to chaperone her for the whole of his visit?

DH wants to divorce me.

Lucky he can't.