True Politeness: A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies
A Victorian Guide to Women's Manners, Conversation, Dress, Visiting, and Polite CorrespondenceBy Anonymous
Length1h 9m
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*True Politeness: A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies* is a compact conduct manual devoted to the social practices by which respectable womanhood was to be recognized and maintained. Its guidance encompasses manners in conversation, visiting, correspondence, dress, hospitality, public behavior, and relations within domestic and social life, presenting etiquette not as mere ornament but as a moral discipline of consideration, restraint, and self-command. Written in the direct, accessible style characteristic of nineteenth-century advice literature, the book belongs to a tradition that translated ideals of gentility into practical rules, revealing how everyday gestures could signify class, character, gender, and education. Its prescriptive tone is therefore historically valuable: beneath its apparently simple instructions lies a model of social order grounded in decorum and mutual obligation. The author's anonymity is itself consistent with the genre's emphasis on exemplary conduct rather than individual literary personality. The handbook appears shaped by a culture in which expanding print readerships sought portable instruction in the codes of polite society, particularly for women whose social presentation was closely associated with family reputation and domestic refinement. Its compiler gathers and organizes customary expectations into a usable form, helping readers navigate occasions on which manners functioned as both social protection and cultural capital. Readers interested in Victorian-era ideals, women's history, domestic culture, or the evolution of etiquette will find this volume especially rewarding. It should be read both as practical advice and as a revealing social document: a concise record of the values, anxieties, and hierarchies that politeness was expected to express.
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Length1 hr 9 mins
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Publish dateApr 9, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Art of Public Speaking (The Unabridged Classic by Carnegie & Esenwein) (Annotated)
26XXIII.
2INTRODUCTIONS.
27XXIV.
3I.
28XXV.
4II.
29DRESS AND FASHION.
5III.
30XXVI.
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6IV.
31XXVII.
7V.
32XXVIII.
8VI.
33XXIX.
9VII.
34XXX.
10VIII.
35XXXI.
11IX.
36XXXII.
12X.
37XXXIII.
13XI.
38XXXIV.
14XII.
39XXXV.
15XIII.
40XXXVI.
16XIV.
41XXXVII.
17XV.
42XXXVIII.
18XVI.
43XXXIX.
19RECOGNITIONS AND SALUTATIONS.
44XL.
20XVII.
45XLI.
21XVIII.
46CONVERSATION—TATTLING.
22XIX.
47XLII.
23XX.
48XLIII.
24XXI.
49XLIV.
25XXII.
50XLV.
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