How many drinks do you have before boarding a flight? You are a civilised, sophisticated Telegraph reader, so a sharpener in the lounge, perhaps? A glass of something fizzy at the smoked salmon bar?
Xena Blankenship sips her tea during a Victorian manners and etiquette class at the Historic Hormel House Saturday morning June 23, 2012 in Austin, Minn. The Blankenships are from Spring Valley, Minn.
Therese Oneill's new Unmentionable is a snarkily informal history of the difficulty of being a woman in the Victorian Era, hemmed in from head to... Victorian manners occupy a space both sublimely ...
Xena Blankenship sips her tea during a Victorian manners and etiquette class at the Historic Hormel House Saturday morning June 23, 2012 in Austin, Minn. The Blankenships are from Spring Valley, Minn.