Manners and social usages vs Miss Beecher's housekeeper and healthkeeper: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Manners and social usages Manners and social usages M. E. W. Sherwood · 1884 ★★★★☆ 3.9 491 pages · ≈ 9 h 06 m · Challenging

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.…

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Cover of Miss Beecher's housekeeper and healthkeeper Miss Beecher's housekeeper and healthkeeper Catharine Esther Beecher · 1873 482 pages · ≈ 8 h 56 m · Challenging

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background…

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