This Victorian Life

“A journey to the past through the eyes of the future, both educating and enthralling with Chrisman’s oftentimes humorous adventures with the Victorian Era.” —Grace Gold, beauty and wellness expert and journalist “The Chrismans give our shared history a shocking tangibility and help us see that the past is much more present, everyday, than we might realize.” —Britt Sondreal, host of BreakThru Radio’s Sew & Tell “Sarah Chrisman’s foray into a lifeway of Victorian foods, furnishings, an technologies deftly avoids romanticizing this 1880–90s era while presenting pleasures and challenges… . These are fascinating reflections on how each Victorian object shapes understandings of everyday life.” —Jeanne E Arnold, lead author, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

Sarah A. Chrisman is the author of Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself and the editor of True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2002 and, alongside her husband, Gabriel, she gives presentations on nineteenth-century fashion and culture. The couple lives in Port Townsend, Washington, in one of the beautiful nineteenth-century homes they once coveted on visits to Washington’s Victorian seaport.