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Five subjects were traditional no-nos at English dinner parties: sex, politics, religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be...
Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners is the newest cousin of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, the classic guide to British bluebloods, which dates back to 1802. The 400-page manual meanders from behavior in the presence of royalty (curtsying is no longer necessary-bowing from the neck...
Debrett is too squeamish to say much about sex, and the little counsel that is offered tends to be erratic. Men should rise for a woman after work, but not at an office meeting. A hostess can, in good conscience, allow an unmarried couple to share a bedroom (a stunning...
The etiquette book is one sign of staid old Debrett's new friskiness since H.B. Brooks-Baker, 47, an American who married a European aristocrat, took it over in 1976. He pushed the company into the black by reaching out to the British middle class and the American market...
Debrett's Etiquette is directly aimed at the anxious middle class in America as well as Britain. Edited by Tennessee-born Elsie Burch Donald, 42, who now lives in England, it will be published in America next month by Viking Press ($25). Says Brooks-Baker: "The last thing the...