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Title: True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen
Condition: New
Format: Hardback
Subtitle: Victorian Etiquette for Modern-Day Mothers and Fathers, Husbands and Wives, Boys and Girls, Teachers and Students, and More
Contributor: Sarah A. Chrisman (Edited by)
Author: Sarah A. Chrisman
Type: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1632205823
EAN: 9781632205827
ISBN: 9781632205827
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Release Date: 04/06/2015
Genre: Fashion & Design
Description: 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 minutethe nineteenth century?

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 and Hill’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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 178mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 499g
Type: Business Culture
Release Year: 2015

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