Opening with the Golden Rule, Florence Hartley sets out how a lady of mid-nineteenth-century America should converse, dress, travel, behave at a hotel, receive and pay morning calls, give and attend evening parties, and conduct herself at the dinner table. Practical rules sit beside moral counsel on kindness, modesty and the perils of pertness.
A revealing document of Victorian American manners and of the expectations placed on women, for social historians and the curious. Download the free EPUB.