Embark on a journey of social grace and refinement with W.C. Green's timeless guide, "The Book of Good Manners: A Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions." Navigate through the intricate nuances of polite society and elevate your interactions with elegance and poise.Discover the secrets to mastering social etiquette, from formal gatherings to casual encounters. Let Green's wisdom be your compass in a world where manners are the cornerstone of respect and ci...

'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph**.** A beautifully repackaged edition of one of the best of the best.When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy with his sister's family, the Ombersleys, in Berkeley Square.Upon her arrival, Sophy is bemused to see to see her cousins are in a sad tangle. The heartless and tyrannica...

An impoverished widow opens a hotel serving the society she has fallen from in this regency romance featuring characters who "leap off the pages" ( Publishers Weekly).After her husband's death, Lady Fortescue knows she must work, even though the thought will appal her society relatives. So she decides to transform her once-grand Bond Street home into a hotel, the Poor Relation, offering society guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility.W...

Lady Harriet discovered not only a curiously carved wooden box but a curious Lord Stanhope in the barn where she sought shelter from the rain. Was he seeking the antique ivory dragon pin reportedly stolen from Baron Rothson by Stanhope's brother? The two must work together to solve this mystery--and that of their own hearts. Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet

The classic guide for how to behave in society.

This carefully crafted ebook: "SPACE ADVENTURES Boxed Set – 8 Novels in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Introduction Writing the Fantastic Story The Venus Trilogy The Planet of Peril The Prince of Peril The Port of Peril The Mars Series The Swo...

Harriet Stanton followed the drum until the deaths of her husband and father, army officers in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Destitute, on the verge of starvation, she returns to England, with her three-year old son, Arthur. Although she has never met her father-in-law, the Earl of Pennington, with whom her late husband had cut all ties, for Arthur's sake, Harriet decides to ask Pennington for help. Turned away from his London house by servants, she is rescued by Georgianne Tarrant, ...

The old nurse’s story” (1906) is a short novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell , the Victorian writer.

THE BACHELOR IN PUBLIC. The average man is judged by his appearance and his deportment in public. His dress, his bearing, his conduct toward women and his fellow-men, are telling characteristics. In the street, when walking with a woman—the term “lady” being objectionable, except in case of distinction—every man should be on his mettle. Common sense, which is the basis of all etiquette, teaches him that he should be her protector. Therefore, under general circumstances, his place is on the...

The Lady Bantock's boudoir, Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire, a spacious room handsomely furnished (chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth) and lighted by three high windows, facing the south-west. A door between the fireplace and the windows leads to his lordship's apartments. A door the other side of the fireplace is the general entrance. The door opposite the windows leads through her ladyship's dressing-room into her ladyship's bedroom

"There is no country where there are so many people asking what is "proper to do," or, indeed, where there are so many genuinely anxious to do the proper thing, as in the vast conglomerate which we call the United States of America. The newness of our country is perpetually renewed by the sudden making of fortunes, and by the absence of a hereditary, reigning set. There is no aristocracy here which has the right and title to set the fashions..."

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods (1882), though unsigned, scandalized her family. After her husband's death, in 1887, she was free to pursue her writing career as a protégée of Ambrose Bierce, eventually writing 60 books ...