Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders
by Josephine Ross, Henrietta Webb

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders
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Author: Henrietta Webb, Josephine Ross
Illustrator: Henrietta Webb
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-10-03
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 138
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Book Review: Amusing and beautiful!
Summary: 4 Stars

This was a very amusing little book and the water-colors inside were gorgeous. However, it was quite short and it would have been nice if there was more historical information included and more substance. I was hoping to learn a bit more about the Regency period from this book, but found that I already knew everything in it, both from reading Miss Austen's original works and from the movie adaptations.

Summary of Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for "literary comment," Jane loved everything about it, except its utter disregard for the manners of the day. The resulting and tender correspondence between the two serves as the foundation for this instructional book.
Etiquette and social behavior of the early 1800s come to life in lovely chapters teaching one on how to pay and return formal "calls," how to properly refuse a proposal of marriage, who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball, and what to wear for a morning walk. Jane Austen used these daily customs and niceties to brilliantly illuminate the cloistered world of high society women in her timeless novels. Now with this delightful handbook of correct social behavior, readers will learn just why Mrs. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice couldn't call alone on her new, rich, bachelor neighbor and had to force the reluctant Mr. Bennet to do so.even as he uttered "Tis an etiquette I despise."
An indispensable gift for any Austen fan, this beautiful book will prove irresistible to anyone wishing to go back in time to the atmosphere of their favorite Austen novels.

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