Food History

Manners and Rules of Good Society

by Anonymous

First published in the late 1870s as by a Member of the Aristocracy, and reprinted many times, this guide sets out who calls on whom, how invitations are answered, and in what order the guests go in to dinner. Its subtitle promises solecisms to be avoided, and it lists a great many. It is a good map of a world in which every rule was a way of telling who belonged.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 5 hours

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #33716. In the public domain in the United States.