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Unmentionable: The Victoria...

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Pre-Order Now! Unbecoming a Woman: The Forgotten Shrews and Sluts that Shaped America

I’m so excited to introduce my third book of historical weirdness and wonder, Unbecoming a Lady, due in bookstores everywhere March 2024 and available for pre-order now!

Allow me to introduce you to 18 remarkable women who triggered change in the world, but did so in the wrong way.

You’ve not heard of them, and if you have, you haven’t heard the full story. They weren’t pretty, graceful, or quie

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My favorite of the year. Just finished today...wow wow wow. Need some time to process. Amazing. AMAZING.
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It's just for fun. You wanna slap your younger self in the face when you see old videos/pics? Here is the catharsis you need. BOTH iterations of the character are annoying, but they have to be so they can get better. It's swift, silly, and fun. ...more
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Travis is just Travis. He's a quiet neighbor in scruffy clothes. Being quiet helps disguise a lot in a guy...you might be rather amoral...and you might be the entity of Death itself.
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“Remember, the center of a woman is her uterus. Her crazy, crazy uterus.”
― Therese Oneill, Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

“How much poorer history would be if there hadn’t been so many artistically talented perverts in days gone by.”
― Therese Oneill, Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

“Here, I think we have some old bedsheets - dye them black with the ashes of your self-respect and sew them together.”
― Therese Oneill, Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

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“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
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“You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― Louise Hay

“Here, I think we have some old bedsheets - dye them black with the ashes of your self-respect and sew them together.”
― Therese Oneill, Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You serve many purposes as a wife, but the most important is incubating and extruding his biological legacy from your body.”
― Therese Oneill, Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

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rachel Read the article about your book that's up on Bustle this morning. Congratulations!


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Cathy Thanks for adding me Therese. I'm looking forward to reading your book!


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