The Ladys Toilette

Download or read book The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility written by Emily Thornwell and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etiquette manuals are an important source for information on issues relating to the study of nineteenth-century social dance. Thornwell discusses the complexion, appropriate dress, introductions, behavior at parties, rules "on polite, easy, and graceful deportment," hints for conversation including "words, and sayings to be avoided," and concludes with chapters on needle-work and dress-making. Although much of Thornwell's manual was extracted from E.C. de Calabrella's 1844 publication The Ladies' science of etiquette, the manual was popular enough to be reissued ten times between 1857 and 1890.