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Do You Have Toxic Bookcloth in Your Library?

Do You Have Toxic Bookcloth in Your Library?

Last year, my mother gave me an original copy of Social Culture, A Manual of Etiquette and Deportment by Annie Randall White. Written and published in the late 19th century, it details all the ways a "lady" should behave in public. While the content of the book is...

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