A handbook of English upper-class etiquette, revised edition after edition to keep pace with fashion. It explains how to make introductions, leave cards and pay calls, the rules of precedence at dinner, and the exact hour at which afternoon weddings are solemnized, with chapters on balls, dinners, mourning and the conduct expected of bachelors and widowers.
An exact record of the social rules of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, entertaining for historians and novelists alike. Download the free EPUB.