Originally published in 1870, Personal Beauty contains many Victorian recipes for health and beauty along with valuable and unusual advice for attaining physical perfection.
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Not only does one learn Victorian beauty routines, but there is also great historical information that holds the readers interest. Delighted to have purchased this book and suggest it to anyone who has an interest in history, fitness, and natural cosmetics.
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Personal Beauty - A Thoroughly Victorian Guide to Personal Beauty
Personal Beauty was originally published in 1870 under the title, The Laws Of Health in Relation to the Human Form. The book contains many Victorian recipes for health and beauty along with valuable and unusual advice for attaining physical perfection. From the Introduction: "But at the outset our fair reader who would be fairer must not understand us as promising too much. We do not come with an Elixir of Youth and Beauty, which she can drink at a draught, and bid defiance to Old Time. No! but in a hundred ways, here a little and there a little, by obeying rules of health, by diet and exercise, by devices of surgery, and by mysterious arts of pharmacy, she will learn how to transform herself from homely into passable, from passable into attractive, from attractive into beautiful."
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WOMEN are now young longer than they are beautiful. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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WOMEN are now young longer than they are beautiful. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Anne Boleyn, Madame Vestris New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems by George C. Byron on page 276
- The Prisoner of Chillon by George Gordon Byron on page 276
- Beauty, The New Basics by Rona Berg on page 81, and Back Matter
- American Folk Medicine by Clarence Meyer on page 114
- The Herbalist by Joseph E. Meyer on page 204
- Martine's Handbook of Etiquette by Arthur Martine in Back Matter
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