This Victorian handbook covers the formal life of polite society from first steps in courtship to the conduct of a rejected suitor, the engagement, banns and licences, the wedding and the bridesmaids’ duties, and then moves to dinner parties and the carving of turbot, cod and salmon, ballroom manners and the figures of the dances, visiting cards and calls.
A vivid window on middle-class Victorian manners, for historians and novel readers alike. Download the free EPUB.