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I really wanted to like this book and it started out very promising, however due to the bad attitude displayed by the author I cannot say this book lived up to my expectations, in fact it is one of the most distateful and disturbing things I have ever read. I am not only worried about the mental stability of the author but of the reviewers who found it charming and delightful. Looking past the contempt the author has for most people she writes about, and trust me there is plenty of this to look past, I find a women who is obesssed with her looks and clothing to the point of fantisizing about violence against others. The most disturbing account in the book by far is the graphic level of physical violence she describes a bus driver as being deserving of for pulling off a ruffle that had torn and was dragging behind her skirt. In this instance the author wears a silk antique for a 6 hour round trip of walking and taking the bus in the pouring rain yet somehow seems surprised when this item becomes damaged during her trip and goes on a lengthy tirade against a bus driver who was only trying to help her out. There is nothing charming or delightful about the author's reaction. In other instances the author showes herself to be an ungrateful guest in people's homes and cars, obsessed by showing off her small waist acheived by corseting, disrespectful and intolerable of an elderly lady who causes her a minor inconvenience as well as anyone else she considers to be burderning her with questions, a difference of opinions, or some level of invonveience. She also displays a strong level of disdain for historical event participants she deems inferior but at the same time takes delight in being superiorly dressed. The author hates the medical practice, hollywood movies and modern technology and takes the opportunity many times to let her audience know. The author also does not have a good relationship with her mother wheich she is also not afraid to let her audience know despite the fact that it has nothing to do with her corestting experience; she ever goes on to critize her mother for not accepting a ticket to a Victorian event as a mother's day gift , apparently spending Mother's Day doing something of interest to her mother rather than herself is also a burden to the author. This book had so much potential to be great and it's a shame that the author has let her "mean girl" nature tarnish the corestting experience and all of the good research she does put forth. In her retelling of her experience the author lacks the manners and decorum of a true Victorian Lady and there is too much negativity to make reading this book delightful or charming.