Book/Printed Material The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc

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Title
The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc
Contributor Names
Thornwell, Emily.
Created / Published
Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Etiquette
Genre
directory
book
Notes
-  By Emily Thornwell ... (statement of responsibility)
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. (additional physical form)
Form
print
electronic resource
remote
Extent
xvi p., 1 l., 11-226 p. front. 19 cm.
Repository
Music Division
Library of Congress Control Number
35038368
Online Format
online text
pdf
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LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/35038368
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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Thornwell, Emily. The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic, 1857. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/35038368/.

APA citation style:

Thornwell, E. (1857) The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/35038368/.

MLA citation style:

Thornwell, Emily. The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility in Manners, Dress, and Conversation ... Also a Useful Instructor in Letter Writing, Toilet Preparations, Fancy Needlework, Millinery, Dressmaking, Care of Wardrobe, the Hair, Teeth, Hands, Lips, Complexion, Etc. Derby & Jackson, New York, monographic, 1857. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/35038368/>.

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