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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Manners and social usages, by Mrs. John Sherwood ...

Sherwood, M. E. W. 1826-1903. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson),

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New and enl. ed., rev. by the author.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887.

SUMMARY
Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s. Additionally, of the book's fifty-nine chapters, two are devoted to dancing and balls.

SUBJECTS
Etiquette.

MEDIUM
487 p. front. 18 cm.

CALL NUMBER
BJ1852 .S54 1887

DIGITAL ID
musdi 237 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.237

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