Lady Behave: A guide to modern manners Anne Edwards (Author) Unknown Binding - 338 pages (1957) Cassell; ISBN: B0000CJRUM

In the last twenty years the code of manners has changed so much that the standard works on etiquette (the word itself has a musty Victorian flavour) no longer have any connection with what is considered correct behaviour. When Emily Post wrote her Blue Book of Social Usage the 'best people' lived by a rigid and exacting code and to follow their pattern of behaviour was essential for acceptance in polite society. But the world of Emily Post is no longer with us, and in place of the hard and fast formula of her age a new code has been evolved to meet the conditions of post-war living.
In offering this guide to behaviour in the second half of the twentieth century, two brilliant columnists, Anne Edwards of the Daily Express and Drusilla Beyfus, have combined to present a highly diverting, unquestionably knowledgeable, and eminently practical work which must become the worldly bible of every woman who wants to know what to do socially, when to do it, and how to do it.
It is a book designed to provide essential information, and an exhaustive index makes it a perfect reference book. But it is more than that. So witty and delightful is the presentation of the rules of conduct that it is quite impossible not to go on reading when you have found the answer to the question of the moment. This is the perfect book on etiquette, nothing like it has ever been written before and no one who has the smallest pretentions to being anyone can afford to laugh it off. It is a book every hostess must have, every girl-about-town will treasure, and every bride should put at the top of her list of wedding gifts.
PRESS APPRECIATIONS OF THIS BOOK
"This new 'guide to modern manners' is a fascinating book which could well be accepted as a standard work. Its witty and racy style, and its shrewd and occasionally mischievous tilts at pomposity in no way disguise the fact that fundamentally it is a wise and valuable reference book for any woman (and not a few men) when facing social perplexities. Nothing seems to have been overlooked."
—Manchester Guardian.
"Provides a refreshingly astringent survey of the whole contemporary female dilemma."—Evening Standard.
"Edwards and Beyfus have out-Posted Emily Post."
—Nancy Spain, Daily Express.
"Provides essential information on correct behaviour in a wide variety of situations met with under post-war living conditions—a perfectly serious guide presented in a highly diverting manner."—Yorkshire Post.
"Entertaining, comprehensive ... it covers almost every known human situation. As far as range and scope are concerned, it leaves Emily at the Post."—Daily Sketch.
"Ladies, Lady Behave is your sheet-anchor. I'm grateful for the whole delightful mixture of wisdom and wit, facts and fun."
—Alan Melville., B.B.C.
"I was positively edified and greatly instructed. I haven't been able to fault them in a single answer."
—John Connell, Evening News.
"An excellent, intelligent, practical guide."—The Lady.

Hardback, good condition, Dustcover a bit tatty