Post, Emily

Post, Emily

 orig. Emily Price

Emily Post.

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(born Oct. 27, 1872 or Oct. 3, 1873, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Sept. 25, 1960, New York, N.Y.) U.S. authority on etiquette. She was educated in private schools in New York City. At the turn of the century her straitened circumstances compelled her to begin writing light fiction and magazine articles. At her publisher's suggestion, she undertook her major work, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage (originally Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home), in 1922; unlike earlier writers on the subject, she directed her commonsense views to the ordinary person of moderate means. The book appeared in 10 editions and 90 printings in her lifetime. The outpouring of letters it provoked inspired her newspaper column, which became widely syndicated.

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Post, Emily (b. Price) (1872–1960) authority on etiquette; born in Baltimore, Md. Daughter of a wealthy New York architect, she wrote society fiction and essays before writing her classic Etiquette—The Blue Book of Social Usage (1922). In her ten editions of Etiquette, and her syndicated etiquette column and radio show, she defined good manners for millions of Americans, dispensing relaxed yet serious advice that was striking in its flexible response to changing social mores.

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Post, Emily

(1873–1960) etiquette book author; preaches “consideration for others.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 277]

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