I enjoyed this book immensely! It was filled with hilarious, tongue-in-cheek do's-and-donts for ladies from times gone by. I had so much fun with it that I took pictures of certain passages to share with my best friend and we both had a good laugh.
I do have some complaints, though. First of all, the effect of a Victorian handbook of manners is somewhat spoiled by the constant notes of "inspired by" or "adapted from" at the end of each article. These ought to have been placed all together at the very end of the book, as reference sources traditionally are in works of nonfiction.
Secondly, the articles should have been collected in categories, such as "Cooking", "Family", "Health" "Fashion and Beauty", "Rules of Conduct" etc. As is they were just placed randomly, in no coherent order. This was somewhat interesting and lended a certain element of spontaneity but was not very professional and, again, spoiled the effect of a handbook.
Third, many of the articles were anachronistic, and this was jarring. The book claims to be "A Victorian Self-help Guide for Modern Women" but contains tips and fashions from the Georgian period and the Elizabethan, too - haphazardly arranged, with no regards to order. Ideally, the book ought to have been called not a "Victorian" guide, but something like "A Guide From The Olden Days", perhaps. As for the articles, they might have been arranged in order of the time period they drew their information from.
In short, I found The Lost Art of Being A Lady to have excellent content, but unprofessional structure.