Josephine Ross

Henrietta Webb

Presents a guide to the social behaviors and manners of eigthteenth century England using the literary device of the English author talking to her niece, covering such social situations as forms of introduction, dancing, dining, entertaining, and marriage

Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners

This entertaining and instructive handbook of correct social behaviour, as depicted in Jane Austen's novels and letters, will help you avert future etiquette blunders

Compliments, Charades and Horrible Blunders

James Innes-Smith

A humorous collection of fashion photographs of outlandish hairstyles, culled from the windows of hairdressers around the world, showcases the worst mullets, bouffants, rattails, and beehives of the past thirty years. 40,000 first printing.

Bad Hair

How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk... Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels and are explored and dealt with in this highly original book. Written as if intended for Austen's original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely witty watercolours, Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, entertaining and instructive little handbook of etiquette as depicted in Jane's novels and letters. It will not only offer sound wisdom and pearls of advice, but also encourage the modern-day reader to look back at Jane's work with a new and deepened appreciation.

Henrietta Webb

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