Eliza Leslie, the Philadelphia cookery writer, turns her sharp tongue on social conduct. She advises American women on paying and receiving visits, introductions, shopping, behaviour in the street, at the table and on journeys, dress and complexion, letter writing, borrowing and obligations to gentlemen, with plenty of tart remarks about bores along the way.
Funny, opinionated and revealing, a vivid picture of middle-class American manners before the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.