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(Excerpt from Social Customs
The man who made the first m...)
Excerpt from Social Customs
The man who made the first map of the earth's surface had a comparatively easy task to fulfil Like Columbus, the world lay before him where to choose; he was not obliged to respect the prejudices nor the landmarks of any predecessor, hut could draw freely upon his own imagination. The last maker of atlases has a very different work to do. His fancy can make no lofty flights; cold realities fence him in on every side. Not an island, not a wretched little cape can he omit; he must copy all his predecessors, and yet he must create a new work. "It is the last step which costs," he exclaims in the bitterness of his heart, and longs for those ancient days of geographical license when turtles, elephants, and serpents figured in place of North and South America.
It is with somewhat similar feelings that the writer of this little volume has entered upon her task. The difficulty of writing a new discourse upon so old a theme as manners is greater than might appear to one who had given the subject no thought.
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Florence Marion Howe Hall was an American writer and social activist. She was also widely respected as an active suffragist and club woman
Background
Florence Marion Howe Hall daughter of Dr. Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, was born on August 25, 1845, in South Boston, Massachusetts, United States, at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, of which her father was the founder and director. Distinguished foreigners frequently visited the Howes and became part of the children’s background. Florence and her brothers and sisters played about the earthworks above Boston Harbor, from which Washington’s cannon had forced the British out of Boston. Their summers were passed first at Newport, where Longfellow and Dr. Howe rented a house together, then at Lawton’s Valley, Rhode Island.
Education
Florence attended several private schools and studied at home with private tutors, some of them foreign refugees.
Career
During the five years of her engagement Florence occupied herself with charitable work in South Boston. The first six years of her married life were spent in New York City; then the Halls lived for fifteen years in a country home at Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Four children made expenses so heavy that Mrs. Hall began writing for newspapers and magazines. She was never successful in story writing but found a market for works of the essay type. Her published volumes include: Social Customs (1887); The Correct Thing in Good Society (1888); Little Lads and Lassies (1898); Laura Bridgman (1903), in collaboration with her sister Maud Howe Elliott; Flossy’s Play-Days (1906); Social Usages at Washington (1906); Memories Grave and Gay (1918); Manners for Boys and Girls (1920), and others. Her literary work involved considerable research on a small scale. Her guides to manners and customs are clearly written, with some humor and agreeable didacticism.
In 1893 the Halls moved to Plainfield, New Jersey, and Mrs. Hall became active in club and suffrage work, in connection with which she often lectured. She was at different times chairman of correspondence for New Jersey of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, vice-president, director, and chairman of the department of education of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, president of the Plainfield Alliance of Unitarian Women, regent of the Plainfield Continental Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, leader in the Woman Suffrage party for the 12th Assembly District of Manhattan, and president of the Newport County, Rhode Island, Women’s Republican Club.
After the death of her husband in 1907 Flarence made her home with her daughter in a studio apartment in Washington Square, New York, until the daughter’s marriage, after which she went to live with her youngest son at High Bridge, New Jersey, where she died.
Achievements
Flarence Hall was an authority on etiquette in the 20th century. She wrote about how to behave at college, how to handle business correspondence, and how to establish a woman's club. Her best known writings include: Social Customs (1887); The Correct Thing in Good Society (1888); Little Lads and Lassies (1898).
Hall hoped her work would enable people to see the justification for different social classes. She believed, too, that etiquette filled the gaps left by legislation, thus preserving order in a society where immigration, urbanization, and industrialization were challenging old social arrangements. Manners, in short, could provide a subtle form of social control that would strengthen the hand of the middle class and upper middle class.
Connections
Florence married David Prescott Hall, a lawyer, on November 15, 1871. They had four children.
