Better Bed Manners

Better Bed Manners A Humorous 1930S Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives

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Publisher's Synopsis

Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse?
How to convalesce in style?
Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house?


This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an amusing guide for married couples. Poking fun at wives and husbands in an even-handed manner, it is both witty and quaint, giving a glimpse of middle-class life of a bygone era, but also offering up some universal advice which still rings true today.

For example, ‘Choose bedside books for their soporific qualities’, or, ‘one whisky-and-soda on retiring... makes the average man forget the dullest dinner and sends him to bed in a glow of good will.’

With sections on hot-water bottles, robes de nuit, breakfast in bed, the best kind of pillow, sneaking home late and night-time readers, this is the perfect, self-improving gift for your favourite bedfellow.

Book information

ISBN: 9781851246199
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Imprint: Bodleian Library
Pub date:
DEWEY: 392.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 220g
Height: 117mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 17mm