Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders

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? Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels. All these points and many more will be dealt with in this highly original book. Written as if intended for her original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely witty watercolours, Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, entertaining and instructive little handbook of correct social behaviour, as depicted in Jane Austen's novels and letters. It will bring today's readers back to her work with a new and deepened appreciation.