Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century

“A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” ( Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine ). Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all these nineteenth-century dilemmas and more, this book is your must-have guide to the etiquette of our well-heeled forebears.