Cecelia Tichi is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Jazz Age Cocktails, Gilded Age Cocktails, What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age and Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America. Her mystery fiction includes the “Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded” series, set in the Gilded Age. Her website: https://www.cecebooks.com.
"A new etiquette guide...has just turned up, offering further proof
that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as
informative as it is entertaining."
*The New York Times Books Review*
"Everyone followed the rules that Mrs. Astor laid down from the
number of courses to be served at dinner to the appropriate time to
arrive at the opera. The exteriors of life in this upper echelon
are the subject of... What Would Mrs. Astor Do?.This was a society
founded on exclusivity, with floods of tears from those who didn't
receive an invitation to Mrs. Astor's annual ball."
*The Wall Street Journal*
"Tichidelivers a crisp survey of New Yorks upper-class world in the
late 19th century, using society maven Caroline Astor as the
guide...Presented with a breezy authority that keeps the pages
turning,Tichi's book will captivate those interested in a light
look at Americas fashionable gentry of eras past."
*Publishers Weekly*
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