Miss Leslie's behaviour book : a guide and manual for ladies ... / by Miss [Eliza] Leslie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etiquette for women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 unnumbered pages-336, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Bros., 1859.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book of etiquette provides women with instructions on the social behavior deemed proper for Victorian ladies.

Notes:

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.

OCLC:

780469020

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.