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The Book of Etiquette, unlike its predecessors, was focused on a British audience. It was a thorough guide to English social etiquette in upper class society. [14] It intended to help readers steer their way through ‘unwritten laws’ of social behaviour and between old-fashion courtesy and the new spirit of informality. [15]
Believing that letters are valuable historical documents, James Willis Westlake, who was a public school teacher born just before the Victorian era in England in 1830, had moved to America at a young age where he published his book on the subject. [10] Westlake says letters are valuable in acquiring knowledge of past people and events. [9]
Etiquette (/ ˈ ɛ t i k ɛ t,-k ɪ t /) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group.
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Visiting cards became an indispensable tool of etiquette, with sophisticated rules governing their use.The essential convention was that a first person would not expect to see a second person in the second's own home (unless invited or introduced) without having first left his visiting card at the second's home.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness. Florence Hartley first published an etiquette guide for ladies in 1860. Though it's nearly 150 years later, much of her 19th century advice ...
We consulted Diane Gottsman, a national etiquette expert, author and speaker, to uncover the most common etiquette mistakes we don’t realize we’re making, and let us tell you, we were very ...
A Victorian studies specialist examining a random volume of the Lady's Pictorial from the 1890s noted as significant the presence of a serial by the New Woman writer Ella Hepworth Dixon: her book The Story of a Modern Woman (with illustrations by an unknown artist) first appeared in weekly installments between 6 January 1894 to 24 March 1894 ...