Etiquette of Social Life in Washington

by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren

Book Overview

Madeleine Dahlgren's 1881 work aims to provide readers with a guide to the peculiar and particular manners and mores of the Nation's capital. Recognizing that official life in Washington, D.C. leads to "perplexing social questions," Dahlgren's work, which went through a number of editions in her lifetime, lays out the special code of social laws that are a work in Washington in the late nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557093997
• ISBN13: 9781557093998
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"