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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leslie, Eliza.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etiquette for women.

Physical Description:

336 p. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the estate of M. Carolyn Pitts.

Cited in:

American women: images and realities

OCLC:

57262981