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Emily Post

daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners

By Claridge, Laura P.

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Emily Post was a daughter of high society, one of Manhattan's most sought-after débutantes. After a scandalous divorce forced her to become her own person, she became an emblem of a new kind of manners in which etiquette and ethics were forever entwined.

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ISBN
978-0-37550-921-6
Publisher
New York : Random House, c2008.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on September 1, 2008

Claridge (Norman Rockwell: A Life), a former English professor, has produced what is called the first authoritative biography of the original etiquette expert, Emily Post (1873-1960). Growing up in Baltimore, Manhattan, and exclusive Tuxedo Park, NY, Emily Price observed the habits of the East Coast's elite families but never quite felt that she belonged to this circle. A cold marriage to Edwin Post ended in a scandalous divorce in 1906, whereupon Emily...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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