Victorian etiquette
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For your 19th century ballroom edification today, we have a list of etiquette points from The Royal Ball-Room Guide and Etiquette of the Drawing Room, 1877 (available through The Library of Congres…
The Victorians were many things, but simple and straightforward in their social dealings they were not. While their rules for behavior might strike us as overly rigid today, those rules formed the backbone of Victorian society.
Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian mandates could be fun.
Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian mandates could be fun.
Nineteenth Century Americans lived by social expectations and etiquette at most times. Funerals and mourning were no exception. This article includes excerpts of an 1877-published primary source, together with advertisements in store catalogs and vintage images of Queen Victoria's mourning photographs.
