Miss Leslie's behaviour book [electronic resource] : a guide and manual for ladies ... / by Miss [Eliza] Leslie.
1859
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Miss Leslie's behaviour book [electronic resource] : a guide and manual for ladies ... / by Miss [Eliza] Leslie.
Author
Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858.
Publication Details
Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Bros., 1859.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource ([3]-336, 17, [1] p.).
Summary
This book of etiquette provides women with instructions on the social behavior deemed proper for Victorian ladies.
Note
Publisher's advertising: 17, [1] p., 2nd and 3rd count.
"As regards their conversation, manners, dress, introductions, entree to society, shopping, conduct in the street, at places of amusement, in traveling, at the table, either at home, in company, or at hotels, deportment in gentlemen's society, lips, complexion, teeth, hands, the hair, etc., etc. with full instructions and advice in letter writing, receiving presents, incorrect words, borrowing, obligations to gentlemen, offences, children, decorum in church, at evening parties, and full suggestions in bad practices and habits easily contracted, which no young lady should be guilty of, etc., etc."
Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.
"As regards their conversation, manners, dress, introductions, entree to society, shopping, conduct in the street, at places of amusement, in traveling, at the table, either at home, in company, or at hotels, deportment in gentlemen's society, lips, complexion, teeth, hands, the hair, etc., etc. with full instructions and advice in letter writing, receiving presents, incorrect words, borrowing, obligations to gentlemen, offences, children, decorum in church, at evening parties, and full suggestions in bad practices and habits easily contracted, which no young lady should be guilty of, etc., etc."
Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks.
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