Item #24346 Australian Etiquette. Lillian M. Pyke.
Australian Etiquette.

Australian Etiquette.

Melbourne: Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., n.d., ca 1920. Wraps. Etiquette guide written specifically for Australians, with a focus on the potential pitfalls of upward social mobility in a relatively young country: "... in a country like Australia, where it is quite probable that a man who has been a miner and brought up in a grade of society whose customs are, to say the least of it, rather primitive, may in course of time represent his State in a governing body, and become the equal of those born in the refined atmosphere of Toorak ..."

Offers advice on etiquette at dances & balls; government house functions; presentation at court; how to address people of rank; and more. No date printed but circa 1920, as a sample letter is dated 1916.

8vo, 96pp. Stiff gray printed paper wrappers. Wrappers slightly marked, chipped at spine ends. Internally, early owner signature at top of title page. Trove 23952754, none in WA. Very good condition. Item #24346

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