The lady's guide to perfect gentility
in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc.
by Emily Thornwell
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Etiquette manuals are an important source for information on issues relating to the study of nineteenth-century social dance. Thornwell discusses the complexion, appropriate dress, introductions, behavior at parties, rules "on polite, easy, and graceful deportment," hints for conversation including "words, and sayings to be avoided," and concludes with chapters on needle-work and dress-making. Although much of Thornwell's manual was extracted from E. C. de Calabrella's 1844 publication The Ladies' science of etiquette, the manual was popular enough to be reissued ten times between 1857 and 1890.
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Clothing and dress, Etiquette, Etiquette for women, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Women, Conduct of lifePlaces
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1865-1918Showing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
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