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G. R. M. Devereux

Best known for etiquette and letter-writing guides, this elusive writer offers a window into the social rules of the early 20th century. The surviving record is thin, but the books themselves have kept that world vividly alive.

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The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage

The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage

by G. R. M. Devereux

About the author

G. R. M. Devereux appears to have been a British etiquette writer or compiler associated with books on manners, social customs, and formal correspondence. Reliable catalog and bookseller records connect the name with works such as How Shall I Word It?, Etiquette for Men: A Book of Modern Manners and Customs, and A Book of Edwardian Etiquette.

The available evidence suggests that these books were tied to the world of early-20th-century advice publishing. Later editions and listings describe Etiquette for Men as a guide first issued in the 1920s, covering conversation, dances, table manners, and letter writing, while How Shall I Word It? is presented as a practical letter writer for men and women.

Very little biographical information about the person behind the name is easy to confirm, so it is safest to remember Devereux through the work rather than a detailed life story. For modern readers, those books are appealing not just as manuals of manners, but as snapshots of how people once dressed, wrote, courted, and moved through everyday social life.