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Manners and social usages / by Mrs. John Sherwood

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-154419

Description

487 p. : ill. 18 cm., Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s. Additionally, of the book's fifty-nine chapters, two are devoted to dancing and balls.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Etiquette.

Originator

Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson), 1826-1903.

Publication

New York : Harper & Brothers

Description

487 p. : ill. 18 cm.
Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s. Additionally, of the book's fifty-nine chapters, two are devoted to dancing and balls.

Call Number

Stacks BJ1852.S54

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