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The Etiquette Book for Gentlemen

Author
Cecil Hartley
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
218 pages
ISBN
9781910150078
Published
15 December 2013
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • gentlemanly conduct
  • refined behavior
  • social settings
  • confidence
  • poise
  • respect
  • personal grooming
  • dressing appropriately
  • body language
  • eye contact

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Description

Cecil Hartley’s handbook of how a man was to appear: dress, greeting, the table, the street, the letter. Not a novel — a map of nineteenth-century masculine manners, from the hat to the eye. Read it as social history with a stiff spine, and as a reminder that grace was once a set of rules you could fail in public. Useful as a period mirror: how to enter, how to eat, how not to disgrace a host. Under the polish is a class performing itself, one correct glove at a time.

Author

Cecil Hartley was a nineteenth-century writer on manners and social conduct. The Etiquette Book for Gentlemen offered practical guidance on dress, speech, and behaviour for readers navigating the codes of Victorian polite society.

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