The rise of informality
Apr 21, 2022
3 minutes
WRITTEN BY GABRIEL STONE
“ARE you gentry or do you stack?” When the poet Wilfred Owen’s cousins moved into their new home in 1908, the maid had a crystal-clear notion of the link between dining-room standards and social class. Dip into an etiquette guide from the era and prepare to drown in a rigidly formalised rulebook whose strictures covered every conceivable minutia. In , Maude C Cooke dedicates 32 pages alone to the thorny subject
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