Etiquette of Social Life in Washington

Madeleine Dahlgren's 1881 work aims to provide readers with a guide to the peculiar and particular manners and mores of the Nation's capital. Recognizing that official life in Washington, D.C. leads to "perplexing social questions," Dahlgren's work, which went through a number of editions in her lifetime, lays out the special code of social laws that are at work in Washington in the late nineteenth century.Dahlgren, Madeleine is the author of 'Etiquette of Social Life in Washington ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781557093998 and ISBN 1557093997.