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Etiquette

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  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.
  • A man is being taught how to bow, and a woman how to curtsey. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • Gentlemen being instructed in dancing and posture. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after J. Collet, ca. 1768.
  • The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

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    Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.

    | Date: [approximately 1824?] | Reference: 659145i
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    Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society

    More, Hannah, 1745-1833. | Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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    A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

    Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965. | Date: 1916 | Reference: 24113i
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    Things I tell people happened to my arms / Rachel Rowan Olive.

    Olive, Rachel Rowan | Date: [2018]
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    Manners of modern society : being a book of etiquette.

    Cheadle, Eliza. | Date: [1875?]
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Related topics

Applied ethics
Courtesy
Christian ethics - Early works to 1800
Nobility - Great Britain - Correspondence
Young men - Conduct of life - Early works to 1800
Conduct of life - Early works to 1900
Manners and customs

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