I know, few (if any) people came out of the 19th century untouched by death, misery, disease, poor diets, fires, colonialism, gender based/class based oppression or burning their hair off trying to look cute in curls. But the clothes!
add to horror:
typhoid fever, jack the ripper, cholera, syphilis, childbed fever, old skool dentistry, surgery sans anesthesia and not a single filmed Jane Austen adaptation.
