Miss Leslie's behaviour book [electronic resource] : a guide and manual for ladies ... / by Miss [Eliza] Leslie
- Bib ID:
- 6500914
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858
- Online Access:
- Gale, Nineteenth Century Collections Online
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- Description:
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- Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Bros., 1859
- 1 online resource ([3]-336, 17, [1] p.).
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks.
- Summary:
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This book of etiquette provides women with instructions on the social behavior deemed proper for Victorian ladies.
- Notes:
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- 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.
- Subject:
- Etiquette for women
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 70 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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