On the one hand, yay...
A sighting in the wild of as, as far as I know, random person talking about the Victorian vibrator myth as, you know, a MYTH and an instance of the condescension of posterity about the supposed naivety of the past -
(I would like to think, my work here is done, but of the proliferation of error there is, alas, no end and I cannot imagine this take to be anything like universal, alas.)
But then the person goes on to assert that a certain kind of educational institution was not around in the 1830s, when, in fact, had been about since (at least, and to the best of my knowledge) the later C18th -
- and, quite famously, was the kind of institution in which the Bronte sisters were educated, taught themselves (at least, Charlotte did), went to teach in in Belgium to gain further experience so that they could establish their own. I.e. figured prominently (indeed, lethally) in the lives of these iconic literary women.
Though have been tripped up by things myself (would you believe how relatively late 'Mary had a little lamb' was written? not a trad nursery rhyme at all).
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