Download Regency Etiquette: The Mirror of Graces (1811); or The English Lady's Costume AudioBook Free
This book, written by a female who wished to remain anonymous, covers the social customs and manners of her time, the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the times of Jane Austen and of Napoleon. It really is devoted in large part to the "English lady's costume" but also covers deportment, movement, the right dances, propriety, and aids to beauty and health. "Naturally, a 'Lady of Distinction', in coy anonymity, has written it. But this book was no joke in Regency times, and much of the advice could have been taken very much to heart....The style of writing of this period can only be described as flowery; everything is padded out with endless adjectives, adverbs, and classical references. So one receives the following advice: 'Again, I repeat, the libertine, the gross Epicurean, may feast his imbruted gaze upon a form so stripped of decency; for he is a creature whose senses are bent to the earth and the basest offerings are his banquet.' This, apparently, is the result of leaving too much shoulder showing!" (Anne Woodley, editor, Regency Collection On-Line) This audiobook will be especially indispensable to anyone considering the times of Jane Austen, of English Regency, of Napoleon, the early USA, and the War of 1812.
