Could You Have Survived Victorian Daily Life?

At least you missed out on these miseries

A woman swats away the stork which has brought her a child. Public domain postcard. Wiki Commons.

Think your daily life is difficult? How might you have fared if the stork had deposited you in an earlier era? In his book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, author Bill Bryson shares fascinating tidbits of historical domestic trivia — most of which make me glad I wasn’t born even as relatively recently as…