Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners

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; 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 reader...