Manners & tone of good society
By: by the Hon. Mrs. Dowdall.
Publisher: A. & C. Black
Published: 1926
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Etiquette.
First sentence: It would be inadvisable for many reasons to attempt any definition of what is meant by Good Scoiety (and the following 164 pages are spent showing how to be in it...)
Description: A really funny 'introduction to 1920s English  good society' worthy of P.G. Wodehouse. The phrasing is a delight; I actually laughed out loud at various bits. The horrible aspect of course is that it is a straight introduction on how to behave, now it is so absurd that it is (in the main) ridiculous. It would make an excellent 'mockumentary' for a film maker.