Begun as articles for Harper’s Bazar, these chapters offer the Victorian woman advice on complexion, hair, figure, dress and manner, closing with reflections on love, ageing and women past thirty. The author treats the science of the toilet as almost as delicate as medicine. Its recipes and remedies are period curiosities, not advice to follow today.
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