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Re: Workwoman's Guide Online - and other online books
It's there, just out of sequence...look behind plate 8.
Susan Armstrong
It's there, just out of sequence...look behind plate 8.
Susan Armstrong
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Re: Workwoman's Guide Online - and other online books
My edition is from Old Sturbridge Village (the big pink book)... plate 11 is there, but it's entirely out of order. There are few editions floating about, though. Good reminder! :)Regards,
Elizabeth ClarkComment
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Re: Workwoman's Guide Online - and other online books
Several new additions to the Gutenberg Civil War bookshelf have come up. I especially enjoyed Caroline Cowles Richards' Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl . Once the war began (and she was rapidly growing to adulthood) she didn't write as much, but the years immediately before the war are chock full of detail.
Here's the bookshelf link:
Becky MorganComment
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Re: Workwoman's Guide Online - and other online books
Concerning etiquette, I've always appreciated a statement from Glenna Jo Christen, which went something like:
I like reading etiquette books, because you can tell what people were like. All the things in the book they tell you not to do, that's what people were doing. Because you don't tell someone not to do something that they don't do anyway.Cordially,
Bob Sullivan
Elverson, PAComment
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Re: Workwoman's Guide Online - and other online books
Of all the things forbidden in the ballroom, I always found it curious that the authors of dance etiquette manuals (who had no qualms with plagerism) had to proscribe "writing on the walls."
Patricia Lynch
Dance Mistress, West Side Victorian Dancers
Hales Corners, Wisconsin
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