Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners

For every Jane Austen fan - this delightful little book will transport them back to their favourite novels and make them review the stories in a new light Beautifully produced with handpainted illustrations - an irresistible and indespensible gift - or indeed a gentle hint!

This entertaining and instructive handbook of correct social behaviour, as depicted in Jane Austen's novels and letters, will help you avert future etiquette blundersHow to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; 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 and are explored and dealt with in this highly original book. Written as if intended for Austen's 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 etiquette as depicted in Jane's novels and letters. It will not only offer sound wisdom and pearls of advice, but also encourage the modern-day reader to look back at Jane's work with a new and deepened appreciation.