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Select Bibliography of Victorian Etiquette Sources
Primary Sources
Beeton, Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836-1865.
Book of household management. Mrs.
Beeton's cookery and household management. [New ed.] London,
Ward Lock [c1960] 1344 p. illus. (part col.) 24 cm.
Dodworth, Allen. Dancing and its relations to education and social life : with
a new method of instruction...,, by Allen Dodworth. New and enlarged ed. New York, Harper
& Brothers [1888] vi, 302 p. front. (port.) illus.
20 cm.
Eighteen Distinguished Authors [sic],
Correct Social Usage: a course of instruction in good
form, style and deportment.New York. The New York
Society of Self-Culture, 1903
Gaskell, George A., 1844-?. Gaskell's
Compendium of forms : educational, social, legal, and
commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching
course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English
composition ... also, a manual of agriculture and mechanics,
with a complete guide to parliamentary practice¾
/, by G. A. Gaskell. Chicago : Fairbanks, Palmer, 1880.
493 p. : ill., forms, plates, ports. ; 28 cm.
Gaskell, George A., 1844-? Writing
as Samuel Smiles, Happy homes and the hearts that
make them or thrifty people and why they thrive,
US Publishing House, Chicago, 1882 644 p. :ill, plates.
Hill, Thomas E. 1832-1915. Manual of
social and business forms. Selections. Never give a lady a restive horse; a 19th century handbook of
etiquette. Berkeley [Calif.]
Diablo Press, 1967. 143 p. illus., port. 28 cm.
Houghton, Walter R. et al. Rules
of etiquette and home culture or what to do and how
to do it. Chicago, 1886. Rand, McNally & Co.
King, Charles, 1844-1933. The colonel's
daughter; or, winning his spurs. Philadelphia, J.
B. Lippincott & co., 1883. 2 p. l., 440 p. 19 cm.
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Martine, Arthur, Martine's handbook of
etiquette and guide to true politeness; a complete manual
for those who desire to understand the rules of good breeding,the
customs of good society, and to avoid incorrect and vulgar
habits. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866--As republished
in Civil War Era Etiquette, R.L. Shep editor and publisher,
1988.
Ransom, J. Clinton. Successful life: designed
to teach the young how to attain the highest success and to
lead both old and young to a more useful, happy and prosperous
life /, Philadelphia, PA : L. P. Miller & Co, 1891,
606 p
Rowland, Helen, Reflections of a bachelor
girl/, New York, dodge Publishing Company, 1909
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. North America.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1862.
Trollope, Fanny & Pamela Neville-Sington
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Originally published 1842. Paperback - 416 pages (29 May,
1997) Penguin Books
White, Annie R.. Polite society at home
and abroad: a complete compendium of information on all topics
classified under the head of etiquette /, Chicago IL:
L.P. Miller & Co 1891. 448 p
Young, John H.. Our deportment : or, The manners, conduct and dress of the
most refined society /, compiled
by John H. Young. Harrisburg, PA : Pennsylvania Publishing
Co, 1880, c1879. 415 p
Secondary Sources
Aldrich, Elizabeth, 1947-. From the ballroom to hell : grace and folly in nineteenth-century
dance /, Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern
University Press, 1991. xix, 225 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Bushman, Richard L.. The refinement of
America : persons, houses, cities. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992
Green, Harvey, 1946-. The light of the home : an intimate view of the lives of women
in Victorian America /, Harvey Green, with the assistance of Mary-Ellen Perry ;
with illustrations from the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum.
1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1983. xv, 205 p. : ill.
; 24 cm.
Haller, John S. Jr & Robin Haller. The
Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America.
/.Urbana Ill, University of Illinois Press. 1974.
Hansen, Karen V.. A very social time : crafting community in antebellum New England
/, Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994. xv, 262p.,
[24] p. of plates : ill., map. ; 24 cm.
Harris, J. William, 1946-. Plain
folk and gentry in a slave society : white liberty and Black
slavery in Augusta's hinterlands
/, 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ;
Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985. xv,
274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Kasson, John F. Rudeness & Civility : Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban
America / Paperback / Published
1991
Knight, Oliver.
Life and manners in the frontier army /, 1st ed. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1978. vii,
280 p. ; 21 cm.
Kortum, Sarah.
The hatless man : an anthology of odd & forgotten manners
/; drawings by Ronald Searle. New York : Viking, 1995. xiv,
191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Pease, Jane H.. Ladies, women, and wenches : choice and constraint in antebellum
Charleston and Boston /, Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1990.
xiii, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series title: Gender & American
culture
St. George, Andrew.. The descent of manners:
etiquette, rules & the Victorians /, London : Random
House, c1993. 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Sutherland, Daniel E.. The expansion of everyday life, 1860-1876
/,1t ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1989. xiii, 290 p.,
[24] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Series title: The Everyday
life in America series
Internet Resources
(Note: the Internet is a moving target. These
links were good as of February, 2004, but may dissappear any
time thereafter).
Nelson, Walter T. The Gentleman's Page: a
practical guide for the 19th Century American man. http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman
Lively Arts History Association. 2000
White, Anna R. Youthþs educator for home and society: Being a Manual of Correct
Deportment for Boys and Girls as well as for Older Ones Who
Have Been Denied the Privileges and Benefits Arising from
Social Intercourse, with Choice Chapters upon Kindred Topics.
Union Publishing House, Chicago.1896 http://www.history.rochester.edu/ehp-book/yefhas/ (University of Rochester History Department Home Page)
An American Ballroom Companion: 1490-1920.
A compendium of over one hundred dancing manuals, in full
text, with illustrations, from the 15th to the 19th Century. Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
Emily Post's 1922 edition of: Etiquette
in Society, Business, Politics and at Home.
http://www.bartleby.com/95/
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