Josephine Ross

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners

Compliments, Charades and Horrible Blunders

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How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk... Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels and are explored and dealt with in this highly original book.Written as if intended for Austen's original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely witty watercolours, Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, entertaining and instructive little handbook of etiquette as depicted in Jane's novels and letters. It will not only offer… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Webb, Henrietta

ISBN: 978-1-4088-3472-5
EAN: 9781408834725
Produktnummer: 13919308
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'372 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Josephine Ross has written a number of books including, most recently, Jane Austen: A Companion, published by Jane Austen's original publisher John Murray.