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Month: February 2006

Media Blitz (hopefully!)

February 23, 2006September 26, 2010 MissAbigail

I’m getting excited! I received my first copies of Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage recently and it looks great, if I do say so myself! Hats off to everyone at Thunder’s Mouth for pulling it all together. You readers should be able to have it in your hands sometime in March or […]

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1932: Manners to Books

February 20, 2006September 27, 2010 MissAbigail 2 Comments

Digging through an unorganized pile of some of my books, I found one I’d forgotten I had, titled Mr. Manners: A Manual of Good Manners, by Rose Henniker Heaton. It was published in 1932 by Burns Oates & Washbourne, London. The title page continues: “for Good Children, together with AWFUL EXAMPLES of WILD MANNERS and […]

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Prelinger Archives

February 19, 2006September 26, 2010 MissAbigail

My old iPod mini (in pink, of course) started to go this month, so I splurged and got myself a new iPod – the one that can handle videos. In addition to downloading a few clips from iTunes, I wandered over to the Internet Archive to see if I could download some of the Prelinger […]

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A tribute to Frieda

February 8, 2006September 26, 2010 MissAbigail 2 Comments

This week, I lost a wonderful friend, my dog of 9 years, Frieda. In the early days of MissAbigail.com, she was the one who would force me to take a break from the computer to take her for a long walk on Capitol Hill, or present me a loud squeak toy to interrupt my typing. […]

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Miss Abigail has a collection of over 1,000 classic advice books, spanning from 1822 to 1978 and covering a variety of topics, from love and romance to etiquette and charm. The collection sparked the idea for this site, then a book, Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage, which has inspired an Off-Broadway production of the same name. This Miss Abigail thing started in 1997 so there's plenty here to keep you entertained even as regular updates have slowed down. Thanks for stopping by -- I hope you enjoy your stay!
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