Seeking to elevate the status of domestic work, Beecher and co-author Harriet Beecher Stowe redefine it as labor for which women must be educated. They also offer instruction in the specifics of maintaining a household.

Seeking to elevate the status of domestic work, Beecher and co-author Harriet Beecher Stowe redefine it as labor for which women must be educated. They also offer instruction in the specifics of maintaining a household.

This 1866 guide to Etiquette was used right after the Civil War, and contains clear and comprehensive directions for manners, dress & conversation, and includes other such essentials as tips on the art of carving, etiquette of the ball, and ...

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"...500 toasts and sentiments for everyboy, and their proper mode of introduction. How to use wine at table, with rules for judging the quality of wine, and rules for carving.

Includes descriptions and directions for ca. 150 ballroom dances.

Advice on proper etiquette regarding parties, social visits, fashion, etc., revealing the complexity of the social rules in Victorian America.

"This amusing collection of forty-three illustrated poems is subtitled ""A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants Depicting the Characteristics of Many Naughty and Thoughtless Children With Instructive Illustrations.

Forty-three poems, with illustrations, that explain bad and good behavior.

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