Actually fascinating read, so interesting to see the earlier origins of current customs. A bit old fashioned in places, just in writing style, may need to be prepared for that.

Amusing to see the detailed rules of a kind of life no longer lived; not that etiquette has been discarded, but it has changed so much! Sometimes I wish visiting cards and formal mourning were still parts of life, as they certainly had their place. On the other hand, I'm glad I can sit whomever I choose next to me at a dinner in my own home!

I find etiquette - or, I guess, differing opinions on and rules of - fascinating, and Emily Post is the go-to name for etiquette. It's been updated (as the name would imply), and now it includes an entire chapter on divorce and post-divorce etiquette, and another on electronic communication.

I'd really like to dig up a first edition, and see how thing have changed over the years.