Letters to a Bride (Classic Reprint): Including Letters to a Débutante: Including Letters to a Débutante (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Armstrong, Lucie Heaton

 
9780243419166: Letters to a Bride (Classic Reprint): Including Letters to a Débutante: Including Letters to a Débutante (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

This engaging etiquette guidebook is appropriate for readers of any age group, from young adults to senior citizens. The author serves as a cultured older relative sharing her accrued wisdom to help the reader navigate social protocol and avoid faux pas. The work presents an engaging historical perspective on the changing face of social conduct and includes tips and instructions for mannerly behaviour in various everyday situations. It also covers written communication and offers a guide to correct address in speech and correspondence for every level of British peerage and landed gentry. With its exploration of etiquette's historical roots and the nuances of modern custom, this is a fascinating, useful guide to understanding and practicing proper social graces.

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Excerpt from Letters to a Bride: Including Letters to a Débutante

Kindly woman of the world, glad to pour out her experience for the benefit of the younger generation. I made my heroine a motherless girl, who felt like a waif and stray in the midst of a London crowd, thinking that many girl readers would feel sympathy with anyone in this situation. The first twelve letters ran through a number of country papers in serial form with such success that I had many letters from readers asking me to continue my letters to the young girl after she became a bride. I then wrote a new series of letters (which appeared in Hearth amd Home), dealing with such slight social difficulties as might naturally occur to a young and timid girl, suddenly put into the responsible position of mistress of the.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Letters to a Bride: Including Letters to a Débutante

During the years that I have conducted the Good Form column in the Lady's Pictorial, I have noticed how many of my correspondents have been girls - young girls in doubt as to how to behave at various social functions, yet afraid to ask their friends for advice for fear of being laughed at. Most of these girls have been motherless, and have preferred writing to a.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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