A thorough Gilded Age manual of good form: how to make introductions and salutations, the etiquette of calling and visiting cards, conversation, giving and attending dinners, table manners, receptions and balls, and on to courtship, marriage and the conduct of husbands and wives. Its assumptions about class and the sexes are very much those of its day.
A rich source for historical novelists, re-enactors and anyone curious how polite Americans once behaved. Download the free EPUB.