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True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen: Victorian Etiquette for Modern-Day Mothers and Fathers, Husbands and Wives, Boys and Girls, Teachers and Students, and More

Editat de Sarah A. Chrisman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mai 2015
Regardless of time period, some things hold true: kindness is timeless.

Invasion of privacy; divorce; relationship issues; encounters between people from different places and cultures; new technologies developed at dizzying speeds . . . the hectic pace of life in the late nineteenth century could make the mind reel.

Wait a minute—thenineteenthcentury?

Many of the issues people faced in the 1880s and ’90s surprisingly remain problems in today’s modern world, so why not take a peek at some Victorian advice about negotiating life’s dizzying twists and turns? Gathered from period magazines andHill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms,a book on social conduct originally published in 1891, this volume provides timeless guidance for a myriad of situations, including:

The husband’s duty:Give your wife every advantage that it is possible to bestow.
Suggestions about shopping:Purchasers should, as far as possible, patronize the merchants of their own town. (Buy local!)
Suggestions for travel:Having paid for one ticket, you are entitled to only one seat. It shows selfishness to deposit a large amount of baggage in the surrounding seats and occupy three or four.
Unclassified laws of etiquette:Never leave home with unkind words.

This advice is accompanied by watercolors and illustrations throughout. Though these are tips originate from nineteenth-century ideas, you’ll find that they certainly do still apply.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632205827
ISBN-10: 1632205823
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 60 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Skyhorse
Colecția Skyhorse

Notă biografică

Sarah A. Chrismanis the author ofVictorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself.She graduated from the University of Washington in 2002 and, alongside her husband, Gabriel, she gives presentations on nineteenth-century fashion and culture. The couple lives in Port Townsend, Washington, in one of the beautiful nineteenth-century homes they once coveted on visits to Washington’s Victorian seaport.