Bloomsbury U.K.
Available: 11/21/06
4.37 x 7.01 · 144 pages
978-0-7475-8474-2
CDN $22.95 · cl

Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners

Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

Josephine Ross

illustrated by Henrietta Webb

Avert etiquette blunders with this entertaining and instructive book of correct social behaviour, as depicted in Jane Austen’s novels and letters.

How to pay and return formal “calls,” how to refuse a proposal of marriage, who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball and what to wear for a morning walk: these are the social niceties that underpin all of Jane Austen’s timeless novels. Written as if intended for Miss Austen’s original readers during the Regency period, this light-hearted book—beautifully produced with full-colour handpainted illustrations—will bring a new appreciation of her work to today’s readers.

Josephine Ross is the author of Jane Austen: A Companion.

Henrietta Webb is the co-creator of Bad Hair.