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Description
This book was co-written by a mother and daughter as a guide to improving social etiquette, and the authors say in the dedication: "Men and women- women, in particular- to whom changed circumstances or removal from secluded homes to fashionable neighborhood involved the necessity of altered habits of social intercourse; girls, whose parents are content to live and move in the deep ruts in which they and their forbears were born; people of humble lineage and rude bringing up, who yet have longings and tastes for gentlehood and for the harmony and beauty that go with really good breeding- these make up the body of our clientele."
This first section of the book includes chapters discussing correspondence such as sending and receiving invitations, home and church weddings, debutantes and debuts, the role of the chaperon, gift-giving, the etiquette for bachelor hospitality, visiting and general hospitality.
Publication Date
1905
Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
City
Indianapolis, IN
Keywords
etiquette, social climbing, invitations, cards, calling cards, letter-writing, functions, home wedding, church wedding, debutante, chaperon, gifts, gift-giving, bachelors, bachelor hospitality, visiting
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Subject
Etiquette; Etiquette in literature; Manners; Debutantes; Bachelors; Etiquette--United States; Social stationery; Visiting cards; Friendly visiting; Bobbs-Merrill Company
Recommended Citation
Harland, Marion and Van De Water, Virginia, "Everyday Etiquette (Part One)" (1905). Mother Home & Heaven. 103.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/motherhomeheaven/103