Hot Victorians
Meet Your Dream Man From the Past
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- 2,99 €
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- 2,99 €
Publisher Description
Alan Carr
'A delicious sepia wet dream of a book that had me drooling, swiping right and wanting to buy a time machine'
Dawn French
'What a treat!'
Dita Von Teese
'This book is brilliant fun - capturing the debonair dandyism and sophisticated enigma of some very ruttable gentleman of the time'
Feast your eyes upon the most gentlemanly brows, chiselled jawlines and tightest abs of the Victorian era.
Authored by the hugely popular 'Hot Victorians' Instagram account, this book is a brazen celebration of the finest men from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. From a show-off strongman, a hot felon and a daguerreotype dandy to a Swedish sailor and Harvard's first Black graduate, there is a chap for everyone.
Divided into chapters such as Hot Dads, Original Hipsters, Jocks and Sexy Nerds, each entry includes a swoon-worthy picture and a dating profile about the man. Among them, meet our cover star Arthur Shidler, dishy doctor and family man from Illinois, or how about the physician responsible for the identification of the bubonic plague parasite - is it really justified that such an ugly bacteria is named after a man so beautiful!? Each entry also includes a hilarious response to one of the prompts you might find on the dating apps, bringing these gents right into the 21st century.
Although they may be dead, for these 70+ perfect gents, chivalry is far from it.
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"Could unfathomable hotness still be found in such stifling social constraints?" asks Radford-Wattley, founder of the Hot Victorians Instagram account, in his quirky debut celebration of historical eye candy. For Radford-Wattley, the answer is undoubtedly yes, as he presents "moody, sepia-toned shots" of potential Victorian dates, ranging from unidentified military men, cowboys, and dentists to famed writers, athletes, scientists, and artists, including J.M. Barrie, Alfred Stieglitz, and even a young Sigmund Freud ("Who could have guessed that young Freud was such a dashing daddy type?"). Divided into categories such as hot dads, hunky jocks, and "original hipsters," the author pairs these photos with imagined answers from the subjects' dating profiles. The latter range from entertaining absurdities, like an Ottawa-based photographer's "intense passion for beavers," to groan-worthy low-hanging fruit, such as Statue of Liberty designer Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's desire for "someone who can hold a torch for me." The volume also includes fairly serious biographical notes on each man, including several fascinating lesser known figures like Edward Carpenter, "an early advocate for gay and women's rights"; intersex criminal Bert Martin; and Franklin Howard Packard, "the original tattooed man." These entries hint that perhaps the Victorian era was not so prim after all, with many thriving subcultures (and dating options). Such tempting historical morsels add depth to this amusing "compendium of cuties."
