Miss Leslie's behaviour book
Subtitle: a guide and manual for ladies ...
By: by Miss [Eliza] Leslie
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: T.B. Peterson and Bros.
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Etiquette for women
Description: This book of etiquette provides women with instructions on the social behavior deemed proper for Victorian ladies.
Notes: Publisher's advertising: 17, [1] p., 2nd and 3rd count.

"As regards their conversation, manners, dress, introductions, entree to society, shopping, conduct in the street, at places of amusement, in traveling, at the table, either at home, in company, or at hotels, deportment in gentlemen's society, lips, complexion, teeth, hands, the hair, etc., etc. with full instructions and advice in letter writing, receiving presents, incorrect words, borrowing, obligations to gentlemen, offences, children, decorum in church, at evening parties, and full suggestions in bad practices and habits easily contracted, which no young lady should be guilty of, etc., etc."

Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.