Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping

Emily Post meets the Queen of Clean and Miss Manners in this invaluable compendium of homespun advice, cleaning and etiquette tips, traditional recipes, and Southern Wit. Mrs. Dunwoody is a character based on the author's great-grandmother and other traditional Southern women who believe in the importance of making a house a home. This receipt book is fashioned after the traditional notes 19th-century Southern women penned as a record of all they knew and thought meaningful to pass on to their daughters--and includes blank pages for readers to include their own notes and personal recipes. Here, Mrs. Dunwoody presents her time-tested secrets for everything from housecleaning to houseguests, letter writing to gentlemanly conduct, reliable wisdom to traditional Southern recipes, all peppered with genteel humor and wit.