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Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 09: Death by Botanical and Metallic Misadventure
This week’s Curiosity Shop Dispatch has made it clear that we need to add a few more items to our list of rules:
1. Listen, just don’t put lead on your face. Or ammonia. Or bugs. Or belladonna. (The jury is still out on opium.)
2. Please don’t contract tuberculosis just to impress a man. He’s not worth it, and you’re only going to look hot for, like, 3 seconds.
3. If you’re going to paint blue veins on your body with indigo, at least be good at it.
Beauty comes with a price, but let’s not make it your life, okay?Curiosity Shop Show Notes:
Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
Victorian Beauty
- A Victorian Lady’s Guide to Fashion and Beauty: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37919365-a-victorian-lady-s-guide-to-fashion-and-beauty
- This advice column from Victorian England shows how women poisoned themselves in the name of beauty: https://www.businessinsider.com/this-advice-column-from-victorian-england-shows-how-women-poisoned-themselves-in-the-name-of-beauty-2016-10
- The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-poisonous-beauty-advice-columns-of-victorian-england
- The Most Dangerous Beauty Through the Ages: https://www.thecut.com/2013/12/most-dangerous-beauty-through-the-ages.html
- Irresistible Eyes: http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/the-most-uncanny-look/
- Deadly & Disgusting Victorian Beauty Trends: https://andreacefalo.com/2016/01/28/5-more-deadly-and-disgusting-victorian-beauty-trends/
- The Ugly Girl Papers or Hints For The Toilet: https://archive.org/details/uglygirlpapersor00powerich
Further Patreon Reading:
- Wicked Plants: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6106482-wicked-plants
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