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A Woman's Walks by Various Authors
Category: Humour | Series: The London Library
"To anyone of my sex who feels inclined to follow my example and visit Billingsgate Market when it is in full blast, I would recommend the use of Louis XV. heels - the higher the better - in fact, a pair of stilts would not be inappropriate" From young men seeking outdoor adventure to intrepid ladies o ...Show more
Hints on Etiquette: A Shield Against the Vulgar by Various Authors
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: The London Library
"If you are so unfortunate as to have contracted the low habit of smoking, be careful to practise it under certain restrictions" With nineteenth-century fashions constantly changing, but the importance of the baffling social codes entirely rigid, a newly-prosperous and bewildered middle class was in dir ...Show more
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