Embarrassing bodies: what did the Victorians have to hide?

What our 19th century forebears thought and felt is well-documented, but we know much less about how they really looked, warts and all. Why did Charles Darwin grow a beard? What was wrong with George Eliot’s hand? Kathryn Hughes examines the physical secrets kept by our 19th-century forebears.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/28/embarassing-bodies-what-did-the-victorians-have-to-hide?source=Snapzu