The Essential Handbook of Victorian Entertaining

Author: Autumn Stephens
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN: 9780912517544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An illustrated collection of amusing, authentic Victorian manners. Pick up the correct fork and dig into this delicious collection of Victorian society's weird, crazy and strange rules concerning dinner parties, teas, luncheons, social calls, overnight visits and more! Copiously illustrated with authentic line drawings by noted artists from the Victorian period.

The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette

Author: Thomas E. Hill
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN: 9780912517124
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Essential for understanding Victorian way of life, this is a very interesting book on the code of manners of Victorian behavior. This book is about life in the Victorian World when the British Empire never slept or the sun never set on it. America in the Victorian World was still a colony and indeed wanting to become it's own in identity. The book plays an important role in explaining that the rules and manner system of America was very similar to the British at least in the old families of Boston and Philadelphia. This highly entertaining little book is great for those just starting to learn about the Victorian culture.

Victorian Entertaining

Author: John Crosby Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863250825
Category : Entertaining
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Victorian Entertaining

Author: John C. Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780792480747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Naughty Victorian Hand Book

Author: Burton Silver
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780894806247
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Now readers can have the underside of Victoriana at their fingertips. Thirteen meticulous black-and-white engravings of turn-of-the-century ladies and gentlemen allow readers to create sensuous images that actually move and are real to the touch.

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

Author: Florence Hartley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
In preparing a book of etiquette for ladies, I would lay down as the first rule, "Do unto others as you would others should do to you." You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be impolite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us; a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; there can be no _true_ politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility.

Inside the Victorian Home

Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.

Manners and Morals of Victorian America

Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Native Ground Music
ISBN: 9781883206543
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Manners & Morals of Victorian America is your gateway to the fashionable world of Victorian America. It draws from the wealth of late 19th and early twentieth etiquette books. With over 400 historic engravings and illustrations, the book details virtually every aspect of Victorian life, including the proper conduct for courtship and wooing, duties of husbands and wives, how to deal with a rejected suitor and even carriage and motoring manners. 7x10, 180 pages.

The Roof Over Our Heads

Author: Nicole Kronzer
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647002850
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A charming YA novel about a family who puts on an immersive, interactive play to save their historical home Finn lives in a family of theater lovers. His older brothers are both actors, and one of his moms is an actor and the other one is a director. They even live in an enormous historic mansion owned by the Beauregard, Minnesota's largest regional theater. Finn is desperate to be an actor, too, despite the fact that he can never seem to remember his lines. When a new artistic director threatens to sell the Jorgensen house and kick his family out of the only home he's ever known, his family puts on a show—an immersive 1890s experience unlike anything else out there. But will it be too much for his mom Lula, who is recovering from cancer? Will Finn connect with his crush and deal with his long-time rival, Jade? Will saving the house save Finn's acting career? Funny, warm, and full of Victorian hijinks, this is a novel for anyone looking for a place to belong.

Essentials of Stage Management

Author: Peter Maccoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135873259
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
Essentials of Stage Management provides a step-by-step guide to a little-seen but essential role in theater. As Nicholas Hytner writes in the foreword to this volume, nobody in the theatre has to know more about everyone else's job than the stage manager. Peter Maccoy draws upon his extensive experience as a stage manager and as a teacher to lay out the functions and responsibilities of this key theatrical profession. Chapters cover the role of stage management, stage manager as manager, research and preparation, preparing for rehearsal, the rehearsal period, the production period, the performance and beyond, stage properties, safe practice, and contemporary practice. Includes a bibliography, six appendixes, and index.