Emily Post's Complete Etiquette: A Guide to Modern Manners - Hardcover

Post, Elizabeth L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062700472 ISBN 13: 9780062700476

Publisher: HarperReference, 1992

Synopsis

A seminal work in etiquette and personal relations, Emily Post’s Etiquette pioneered many social networking concepts still popular today. Addressing a variety of topics ranging from how to conduct oneself when meeting strangers to how one should behave at formal dinners and engagements, Post offers a wide range of advice that still resonates in social circles today.

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Review

Trendspotting Oh, Behave! From grandes dames of good behavior and modern advocates of fabulousness, manners make a comeback. "Emily Post is the literary It Girl of the moment, and she has Joan Didion to thank for it. Despite the fact that she's been dead for nearly fifty years, Post and her seminal guide to good manners, Etiquette, have come up in nearly every review of Didion's best-selling new memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. Critics can't resist mentioning that in the dark days after her husband's death in late 2003, Didion found great solace in the "Funerals" chapter of Etiquette's first edition, published in 1922. Psychologists, poets, and philosophers could theorize all they wanted about the stages of grief and how to cope, but in Post, Didion found the reasoned voice that really offered relief. It was the relief of ritual -- of an established code of conduct that could safely transport her from one difficult moment to the next, without the burden of hand-wringing analysis."

About the Author

Emily Price Post was born in October of 1872 or 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland to Bruce and Josephine Lee Price. She was homeschooled and, later, attended finishing school in New York City. In 1892, she married Edwin Main Post, a banker from a widely known family in the social circles of Long Island. The couple had two sons, Edwin M. Post, Jr. and Bruce Price Post, who died in 1927. Subsequently, Mr. and Mrs. Post were divorced. As well as Etiquette, which was in its eighty-ninth printing at the time of her death, Emily Post wrote other works, including fiction and short stories. In addition, she wrote a cookbook, The Emily Post Cook Book. In 1946, Emily Post founded the Emily Post Institute. She died on September 25, 1960, and her name has lived on in the public domain as synonymous with etiquette.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperReference
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062700472
• ISBN 13: 9780062700476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736