Victoriana: advice, etiquette and textbooks

From proper behavior, to how to raise a child, to how to fight a duel, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), contains 129 books of advice and etiquette and textbooks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Complete Table of Contents:

Etiquette

• Book of Etiquette by Lillian Eichler, volume 2 (1921)
• The Code of Honor, or Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling by John Lyde Wilson (booklet, 1838)
• Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
• Etiquette n Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home by Emily Post, 1922
• George Washington's Rules of Civility by Monclive Conway
• The Laws of Etiquette or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society by a Gentleman (Philadelphia) (1836)
• Manners and Conduct in School and Out by the Dean of Girls in Chicago High Schools, 1921
• Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John Sherwood (1887)
• Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge and Sons

Advice

• 52 Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Rev. Howard Chidley, 1914
• Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children and on the Treatment on the Moment of Some of Their More Pressing Illnesses and Accidents by Pye Henry Chavasse (1878)
• The American Child by Elizabeth McCracken, 1913
• The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Child, 1832
• The Art of of Interior Decoration by Grace Wood adn emily Burbank, 1917
• Beeton's Book of Needlework, 1870
• Bits About Home Matters by Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.), 1873
• The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeta (1860-1861)
• Bundling: Its Origin, Progress, and Decline in America by Henry Reed Style
• Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
• The Child Under Eight by E.R. Murray (1920)
• Children's Rights: a Book of Nursery Logic by Kate Doublas Wiggin, 1892
• A Child's Anti-Slavery Book
• The Christian Home As It Is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church, 1865
• Cobbett's Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett, 1829
• The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by R. Bradley
• Domestic Pleasures by T.B. Vaux
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household by Mrs. A.M. Diaz
• The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking by Helen Campbell, 1903
• The Education of the Child by Ellen Key
• Entertaining Made Easy by Emily Rose Burt, 1919
• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives by John Ruskin (1875)
• A Few Practical Sugggestions [regarding "pure English"]
• The Four Epoch's of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Galbraith
• From a Girl's Point of View by Lillian Bell, 1897
• The Fun of Getting Thin by Samuel Blythe, 1912
• Furnishing the Home of Good Taste by Lucy Abbot Throop, 1920
• Games for Halloween by Mary F. Blain (1912)
• Gentle Measues in the Management and Training of the Young by Jakob Abbott
• Girls' Faults and Ideals by J.R. Miller
• Godey's Ladies Book, Jan. 1851
• Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness, and Happiness
• The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders, Famous for their Misdeeds, and Serving as a Salutary Example for all Virtuous Children, 1913
• More Goops and How Not be Be them by Gelett Burgess
• Happiness and Marriage by Elizabeth Towne (1904)
• Healthful Sports for Boys by Alfred Rochefort
• Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H. Ryder (1896)
• The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1913
• How to Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration by Lillian B. Lansdown
• How to Use Your Mind: a Psychology of Study by Harry Kitson
• The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock, 1917
• The Infant System for dEveloping the Intellectual and Moral Powers of All Children by Samuel Wilderspin
• The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850
• Love, Life, and Work by Elbert Hubbard, 1906
• Maintaining Health by R. L. Alsaker
• Making Both Ends Meet: the Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt, 1911
• The Maternal Management of Chilldren in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull
• McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling-Book, 1829
• McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, 1920
• McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader, 1920
• McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader, 1920
• McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, 1920
• The Meaning of Infancy by John Fiske
• The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron, 1920
• Parent and Child, volume 3, Child Studies and Training,  by Mosiah Hall, 1916
• Poise and How to Attain It by D. Starke, 1916
• Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife by Marion Miller
• Practice Book, Leland Powers School, 1909
• Principles of Home Decoration with Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler, 1903
• Quaint Courtships: Harper Novellettes edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Millis Alden (1906)
• Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maud Royder
• The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti, translated by Caroline Smith
• Stray Thoughts for Girls by L.H.M. Soulsby, 1903
• The Teacher by Jacob Abbott
• The Toaster's Handbook by Pegy Edmund
• Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger
• Wanted, a Young Woman to do Hosuework: Business Principles Applied to Hosuework by C. Helene Barker
• What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
• What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by Franklin Bobbit
• A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1904
• The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor and English Teacher's Assistant by J. Hamilton Moore, 1802
• The Young Lady's Mentor by A Lady, 1852
• The Young Mother or Management of Children in Regard to Health by William Alcott, 1836
• The Young Woman's Guide by William Alcott
• Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Sidonie Gruenberg (1920)
• Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
• Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys by Mary Scharlieb, 1919

Textbooks

• 1001 Questioins and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B.A. hathaway, 1888
• Aunt Mary's Primer, 1831
• A Book of Exposition by Homer Heather Nugent, 1922
• Business Correspondence, volume 1, How to Write the Business Letter
• The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Howard (1885)
• The Century Vocabulary Builder by Garland Greever
• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: a Reader for the Fourth Grade by Augusta Stevenson, 1908
• Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton Brooks
• De La Salle Series, Fifth Reader, 1922
• Elements of Civil Government by Alex Peterman, 1916
• Elson Grammar School Literature, Book Four, by William Elson (Cleveland, Ohio) and Christine Keck (Grand Rapids, Michigan) (1912)
• English Grammar by W.M. Baskerville, 1895
• English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
• Evolution of Expression, volume 1, by Charles Wesley Emerson (founder of Emerson College of Oratory in Boston)
• First Lessons in Geography by James Monteith, 1856
• A First Spanish Reader by Erwin Roessler and Alfred Remy
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning or the Alphabet in Rhyme by anonymous, 1850
• Government Class Book by Andrew Young, 1865
• Graded Poetry: Seventh Year edited by Katherine Blake and Georgia Alexander (1906)
• The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
• Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
• Higher Lessons in English, a Work on English Grammar and Composition, in Which the Science fo the Language is Made Tribuary to the Art of Expression, a Course of Practical Lessons Carefully Graded, and Adapted to Everyday Use in the School Room by Alonzo Reed (Brooklyn) and Brainerd Kellogg (Brooklyn) (1896)
• A History of English Literature by Robert Fletcher (1916)
• Home Geography for Primary Grades by C.C. Long
• How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin, edited by Theodore Waters
• How to Study and Teaching How to Study by F.M. McMurry (Columbia University) (1909)
• Initiation into Literature by Emile Faguet
• Journalism for Women: a Practical Guide by E.A. Bennett
• A Kindergarten Story Book, 1916
• The Ladder to Learning by Miss Lovechild, 1852
• Macmillan's Reading Books, Book 5
• Object Lessons on the Human Body, 1904
• On English Homophones by Robert Bridges, 1919
• Outlines of English and American Literature by William Jong
• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, part 1, by Jane Nevell, 1888
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study by Grenville Kleiser, 1910
• Practical Argumentation by George K. Pattee (Pennsylvania State College) (1909)
• Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
• Practical Psychology by Albert Blaisdell
• A Primary Reader by E. Louise Smythe
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice by Irvah Lester Winder (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing, Third and Fourth Grades
• A School History of the United STates by John McMaster
• Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, compiled and annotated, with questions for study by Emilie Kip Baker
• Studies in Civics by Jane McCleary, 1897
• Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading

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