Aside from the romantic view given in novels written at the time. How aware of “the facts of life” were young people, especially girls in Victorian society?
The impression seems that they were kept in total ignorance with comical stories about wedding nights. Is this a a comedic idea or quite accurate?
Honestly, yes, young upper-class and middle-class women were kept fairly ignorant about sex in this time period. I talk about how this came to be in my answer to In Netflix's new show, Bridgerton, Lady Daphne Bridgerton marries at the age of 21 not knowing what sex is or where babies come from. Is this accurate or likely?