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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.

Summary

  • Etiquette manuals are an important source for information on issues relating to the study of nineteenth-century social dance. Thornwell discusses the complexion, appropriate dress, introductions, behavior at parties, rules "on polite, easy, and graceful deportment," hints for conversation including "words, and sayings to be avoided," and concludes with chapters on needle-work and dress-making. Although much of Thornwell's manual was extracted from E. C. de Calabrella's 1844 publication The Ladies' science of etiquette, the manual was popular enough to be reissued ten times between 1857 and 1890.

Names

  • Thornwell, Emily.
  • Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857.

Headings

  • -  Etiquette

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
  • -  LAC ecr 2020-02-14 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • xvi p., 1 l., 11-226 p. front. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BJ1856 .T5

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 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, and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. 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. New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. Web.. https://lccn.loc.gov/35038368.

APA citation style:

Thornwell, E. & Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. (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. New York, Derby & Jackson. [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/35038368.

MLA citation style:

Thornwell, Emily, and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. 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. New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. Web.. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <lccn.loc.gov/35038368>.