The Polite Americans: A Wide-angle View of Our More Or Less Good Manners Over 300 Years |
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... The Ladies ' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness . Boston : ( c . 1860 ) . Harvard Portraits . A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University . .. Allan Burroughs , ed . Cambridge , Mass .: 1936 . Hawthorne , Nathaniel ...
... The Ladies ' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness . Boston : ( c . 1860 ) . Harvard Portraits . A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University . .. Allan Burroughs , ed . Cambridge , Mass .: 1936 . Hawthorne , Nathaniel ...
Contents
GENTLE IS AS GENTLE DOES | 17 |
THE ART OF WORLDLY SUCCESS | 26 |
SOCIETY AT THE SOUTH | 41 |
Copyright | |
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