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Maud C. Cooke

Best known for practical late-Victorian guides to etiquette and home life, this author wrote books that show how people were expected to behave, entertain, and manage a household at the turn of the century. Her work still offers a vivid window into everyday social customs of the 1890s and early 1900s.

2 Audiobooks

Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment Or the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad; Containing Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions, Including Calls; Invitations; Parties; Weddings; Receptions; Dinners and Teas; Etiquette of the Street; Public Places, Etc., Etc. Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture; the Art of Dressing Well; Conversation; Courtship; Etiquette for Children; Letter-Writing; Artistic Home and Interior Decorations, Etc.

Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment Or the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad; Containing Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions, Including Calls; Invitations; Parties; Weddings; Receptions; Dinners and Teas; Etiquette of the Street; Public Places, Etc., Etc. Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture; the Art of Dressing Well; Conversation; Courtship; Etiquette for Children; Letter-Writing; Artistic Home and Interior Decorations, Etc.

by Maud C. Cooke

Social Life; or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society

Social Life; or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society

by Maud C. Cooke

About the author

Maud C. Cooke was an American author remembered mainly for advice books on etiquette, deportment, and domestic life. Confirmed titles associated with her include Social Etiquette; or, Manners and Customs of Polite Society (1896), Three Meals a Day (1887), Breakfast, Dinner and Supper (1897), Our Deportment (1903), and 20th Century Cook Book (1905).

Her books were designed as practical manuals rather than literary works. They gathered rules for conversation, dress, entertaining, letter-writing, family life, and table service, along with cookery and household guidance, making them useful snapshots of the expectations placed on middle-class readers of the period.

Reliable biographical details about her life beyond her published works are hard to confirm from the sources reviewed here, so it is safest to focus on the books themselves. Taken together, they present her as a popular writer of everyday instruction books whose work now appeals to readers interested in social history, manners, and domestic culture.