{"product_id":"2940157771621","title":"The Behaviour Book","description":"Etiquette for the American middle class, 1853-style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEliza Leslie covers the wide range of daily life in 19th-century America: four pages are devoted to selecting an umbrella (green silk ones weren't colorfast); she includes instructions for making a good black ink; and bed-making gets half a page. It's a chatty book, full of anecdotes (George Washington telling a tall tale to a credulous traveler) and one-paragraph essays on subjects like having a bedroom window open and how to refer to black servants. (Leslie includes a disengenuous note on a noxious racial epithet.) The book is a wealth of anecdotal information about Leslie's native Philadelphia, including a child's rhyme listing its principal streets. The two chapters on how to treat writers and how to become a writer probably answered questions Leslie had heard over and over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ebook contains the text--minus the page numbers--of the 1853 edition. Included are a review of the 1853 edition and another of the 1859 edition. I've corrected typographical errors and modernized the spelling of a few words.","brand":"merrycoz books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084238504176,"sku":"2940157771621","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157771621_p0.jpg?v=1764108579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157771621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}