Learn the Victorian niceties of using calling cards. Find out when to leave them, how many to leave, and when a card cannot replace a letter.

Provides tidbits about Victorian-era manners, including the use of fans and how a true gentleman should behave at home.

Outlines various rules of Victorian etiquette in travel, business, courtship, and weddings.

Letter written by the Duchess of Orleans in 1704 describes the concern with manners at the court of King Louis XIV.

Depicts various mores of polite Victorian society. A lady does not giggle or whisper in public, and a gentleman never swaggers along the street.