I have always been drawn to the Victorian Era though it wasn't one of the best times for women. Rachel does a great job of drawing on literary references, Historical figures and her own personal life to show how easily a Victorian woman and even women today can be seen as just "too much". Women consistently are judged as too emotional, to aggressive, too fat, to demanding. Bonus points for women of color who face the same struggles along with the fear of being labeled "too loud" or "too ethnic"

Rachel Vorona Cote's Too Much is a deeply interesting examination of the ways that Victorian's objectified women and blocked off what they were allowed to be. She looks at what happened to women when they went beyond the tight boundaries that society established for their expression, and who took it upon themselves to draw those boundaries in the first place. A first rate work of pop history, Too Much is sure to draw the eye of many readers.

Review to be posted upon publication.

From this day forward, if I catch any woman saying she is "too much", she's getting a copy of this book. It took me years of recovering from abuse to realize that I might be "too much", too loud, too emotional, too crazy for some people... those are not my people. This book is a reminder to women everywhere that being "too much" is the only way to be.