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 231 books of advice and etiquette and textbooks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents:

Etiquette and Manners

• Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
• The Book of Business 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
• Etiquete by Agnes H. Morton, 1919
• Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home by Emily Post, 1922
• The Etiquette of To-Day by Edith B. Ordway, 1918
• George Washington's Rules of Civility by Monclive Conway
• How to Behave: a Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, 1887
• The Ladies' Vase or Polite Manual for Young ladies by an American Lady, 1849
• 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)
• Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young, 1881
• 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)
• Advice to a Young man Upon First Going to oxford by Edward Berens, 1832
• Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women by G.S. Weaver
• The American Child by Elizabeth McCracken, 1913
• The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Child, 1832
• Architects of Fate or Steps to Success and Power, a Book Designed to Insprie Youth to Character Bulding, Self-Culture and Noble Achievement by Orison Swett Marden, 1897
• 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
• The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell, 1921
• Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
• Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Orison Swett Marden, 1899
• The Child at Home or Principles of Filial Duty Familiarly Illustrated by John S.C. Abbott, 1833
• The Child's Day by Woods Hutchinson, 1912
• 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
• Choice Readings for he Home Circle, 1916
• 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 Complete Home edited by Clara E. Laughlin, 1907
• Conversation: What to Say and How to Say It by Mary Greer Conklin
• 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
• The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart, 1914
• Entertaining Made Easy by Emily Rose Burt, 1919
• Essays on Various Subjects, Principaly Designed for Young Ladies, 1777
• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives by John Ruskin (1875)
• The Eugenic marriage, a Personal Guide to the new Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant Hague, 1914
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• The Family and Its Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
• A Few Practical Sugggestions [regarding "pure English"]
• Food Remedies, Facts about Foods and Their Medicinal uses by florence Daniel, 1908
• The Four Epoch's of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Galbraith
• Fowler's Household Helps, over 300 useful and valuable helps about the home, carefully compiled and arranged in convenient form for frequent use
• The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger, 1868
• From the Ball-Room to Hell by T.a. Faulkner, 1892
• 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
• The Golden Censer or the Duties of To-Day and the Hopes of Future by John McGovern, 1884
• Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness, and Happiness
• The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book, TWelve Steps to a Happy Marriage, edited by William F. Bigelow
• 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
• The Handy Cyclopdia of Things Worth Knowing. A Manual of Ready Reference
• Happiness and Marriage by Elizabeth Towne (1904)
• Healthful Sports for Boys by Alfred Rochefort
• Herself, Talks with Women Concerning Themselves by E.B. Lowry, 1917
• Hidden Treasures or Why Some Succeed Whlie Others Fail by H.A. Lewis, 1887
• Hints on Driving by C.S. Ward, 1870
• 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
• How to Get on in the World or a ladder to Practical Success by A.R. Calhoun, 1895
• How to Live, Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher and Eugene Lyman Fisk, 1916
• How to Succeed or Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden, 1896
• 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
• The Ladies' Book of Useful Information, 1896
• The Ladies' Work-Book, Containing Instructions in Knitting, Crochet, Point-lace, etc.
• 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
• The Meaning of Infancy by John Fiske
• The Mother and Her Chlid by William S. Sadler, 1916
• Mother's Remedies, over one thousand tried and tested remedies from otothers of the United States and Canada by T.J. Ritter, 1921
• Mrs. Whittelsey's magazine for Mothers and Daughters edited by Mrs. A.G. Whittelsey, volume 3, 1852
• A Museum for Young Gentlemen and ladies
• The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron, 1920
• Notes d'une Mere, Cours d'Education Maternelle [in French] by Louise d'Alq, 1883
• Parent and Child, volume 3, Child Studies and Training,  by Mosiah Hall, 1916
• La Petite Jeanne ou Le Devoir [in French] by Madame Z. Carraud, 1884
• Plain Facts for Old and Young by J.H. Kellogg, 1881
• Poise and How to Attain It by D. Starke, 1916
• The Power of Womanhood or Mothers and Sons, a Book for Parents and Those in Loco Parentis by Ellice Hopkins, 1899
• A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females, Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb, 1833
• 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)
• Say, Fellows; Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues by Wade C. Smith, 1921
• The Secret of a Happy Home by Marion Harland, 1896
• Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maud Royder
• Social Emergency, Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals edited by William Trufant Foster, 1914
• The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed, 1907
• 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
• Vice in its Proper Shape or the Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses into those Contemptible Animals Whcih They Most Resumble in Disposition, 1789
• Wanted, a Young Woman to do Hosuework: Business Principles Applied to Hosuework by C. Helene Barker
• The Wedding Day, the Service, the Marriage Certificate, Words of Counsel edited by John F. Hurst, 1889
• What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
• What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by Franklin Bobbit
• What a Young Woman Ought to Know
• A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1904
• Woman and Womanhood by Dr. C.W. Saleeby, 1911
• Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank, 1917
• Woman's Wild Oats, Essays on the Re-Fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine Hartley, 1920
• 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 Madien by A.B. Muzzey, 1848
• 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
• Barnes' New National Readers, Fourth Reader, by Chalres J. Barnes nd J. Marshall Hawkes, 1884
• The Beacon Second Reader by James H. Fassett
• 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
• Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 1911
• 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 As She Is Wrote, 1883
• English: Composition and Literature by W.F. Webster, 1900
• English Grammar by W.M. Baskerville, 1895
• English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
• English Synonyms and Antonyms, 1896
• 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
• General Science by Betha M. Clark, 1912
• Girls and Women by E. Chester, 1890
• Government Class Book by Andrew Young, 1865
• Graded Memory Selections, 1903
• 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
• A Hand-Book of the English Language by R.G. Latham
• 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)
• History of France by Charlotte M. Yonge, 1882
• 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
• Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar by William S. Balch, 1838
• The Literary World, Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf, Sarah Withers, and Hetty S. Browne, 1919
• History of the McGuffey Readers by Henry H. Vail, 1911
• Household Science in Rural Schools, 1918
• How to Write Clearly, Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Edwin A. Abbott, 1883
• Macmillan's Reading Books, Book 5
• McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book
• McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader
• McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
• McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
• McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
• McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
• Modern Prose and Poetry for Secondary Schools edited by Margaret Ashmun, 1914
• New Word-Analysis or School Etymology of English Derivative Words with Practical Exercises by William Swinton, 1879
• Object Lessons on the Human Body, 1904
• On English Homophones by Robert Bridges, 1919
• The Ontario Readers -- The High School Reader, 1886
• The Ontario Readers -- High School Reader by A.E. Marty, 1911
• The Ontario Readers -- Third Book, 1909
• The Ontario Readers -- Fourth Book, 1909
• Ontario Teachers' Manuals -- History, 1915
• Ontario Teachers' Manuals -- Household Management, 1916
• Ontario Teachers' Manuals -- Nature Study, 1915
• Outlines of English and American Literature by William Jong
• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, part 1, by Jane Nevell, 1888
• Parker's Second Reader to Richard G. Parket, 1851
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study by Grenville Kleiser, 1910
• Practical Argumentation by George K. Pattee (Pennsylvania State College) (1909)
• Practical English Composition, Book 2 for the Second Year of High School by Edwin L. Miller, 1916
• Practical Ethics by William Dewitt Hyde, 1892
• Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
• Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood
• Practical Psychology by Albert Blaisdell
• A Primary Reader by E. Louise Smythe
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice by Irvah Lester Winder (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Reading Made Easy for Foreigners, Third Reader by John L. Huelshof, 1909
• Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing, Third and Fourth Grades
• School History of the Great War by Albert E. McKinley, 1918
• 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
• A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes by William Adams, 1873
• Story Hour Readings -- Seventh Year by E.C. Hartwell, 1921
• Studies in Civics by Jane McCleary, 1897
• Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English by Gilbert Sykes Bakeley, 1908
• Textbook in the History of Painting by John C. Van Dyke, 1909
• Textiles and Clothing by kate Heintz Watson, 1907
• A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the use of young ladies at home and at school by Catherine E. Beecher, 1845
• Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading