Etiquette of Social Life in Washington de Dahlgren, Mrs. Madeline Vinton - 1881

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1881. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 77 pages. Green cloth hardcover with black decorated borders and title on the front cover. Previous owner's name and address written upside on the rear end sheet. From wikipedia: Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (pen names, Corinne and Cornelia; July 13, 1825 - May 28, 1889) was an American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist.[1] Dahlgren's estate was on South Mountain, Maryland, overlooking the battlefield. In 1870 and 1873, she actively opposed the movement for female suffrage, and drew up a petition to Congress, which was extensively signed, asking that the right to vote should not be extended to women. The Literary Society of Washington, of which she was one of the founders, held its meetings in her house for six years, and she was elected its vice-president. She was for some time president of the Ladies' Catholic Missionary Society of Washington, and built the chapel of St. Joseph's of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on South Mountain.[2].