Etiquette & Enemies

Good manners in the 1920s were never really about manners — they were a way of keeping score. Who got invited, who got cut, who you had to be gracious to in public while quietly plotting their downfall in private. Delphine’s readers wrote to her about exactly that: the friend who betrayed them, the rival who wouldn’t stay in her lane, the party where everyone was smiling and no one meant it.

Etiquette & Enemies is where she answers those letters — the social chess of it, done with just enough grace to still be called a lady.