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The manual offers practical, prescriptive guidance for ladies' social conduct and household deportment, covering callers, introductions, tea and dinner etiquette, and appropriate behaviour in public spaces. It provides protocols for travelling, hotels, and shipboard life, plus advice on shopping, amusements, and evening parties. Separate chapters address correspondence, gifts, conversation, correct usage of words, borrowing, obligations to gentlemen, and relations with literary women and inexperienced authors. Interspersed are pragmatic tips on bedchamber routines, ventilation, health, and childrearing, aimed at refining manners and smoothing everyday domestic interactions.

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Title: The behaviour book

A manual for ladies

Author: Eliza Leslie

Release date: December 14, 2024 [eBook #74899]

Language: English

Original publication: Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1853

Credits: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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THE
BEHAVIOUR BOOK:
A Manual for Ladies.

BY
MISS LESLIE.
AUTHOR OF PENCIL SKETCHES, COMPLETE COOKERY, THE HOUSE BOOK, MORE RECEIPTS, ETC.
Third Edition.
PHILADELPHIA:
WILLIS P. HAZARD, 178 CHESTNUT ST.
1853.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
WILLIS P. HAZARD,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO.
PHILADELPHIA.
KITE & WALTON, PRINTERS.