Emily Post
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| Born | Emily Price about October 27, 1872 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | September 25, 1960 (aged 87) New York City |
| Occupation | Author, Founder of The Emily Post Institute |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Finishing school |
| Subject | Etiquette |
| Spouse | Edwin Main Post (1892–1905) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Elizabeth Post, Peggy Post, Bruce Price |
Emily Post (c. October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960) was an American author famous for writing about etiquette.
Post was born Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, possibly in October 1872 (the precise date is disputed). Her father was the architect Bruce Price and her mother was Josephine (Lee) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After being educated at home in her early years, Price attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York after her family moved there.
The New York Times' Dinitia Smith reports, in her review of Laura Claridge's 2008 biography of Post, "Emily was tall, pretty and spoiled. [...] She grew up in a world of grand estates, her life governed by carefully delineated rituals like the cotillion with its complex forms and its dances — the Fan, the Ladies Mocked, Mother Goose — called out in dizzying turns by the dance master.
Price met her future husband, Edwin Main Post, a prominent banker, at a ball in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Following their wedding in 1892 and a honeymoon tour of Europe, they lived in New York's Washington Square. They also had a country cottage, named "Emily Post Cottage", in Tuxedo Park, which was one of four Bruce Price Cottages she inherited from her father. The couple had two sons, Edwin Main Post Jr. (1893) and Bruce Price Post (1895).
The couple divorced in 1905, because of her husband's affairs with chorus girls and fledgling actresses, which made him the target of blackmail.
When her two sons were old enough to attend boarding school, Post began to write. She produced newspaper articles on architecture and interior design, as well as stories and serials for magazines including Harper's, Scribner's, and The Century. She wrote five novels: Flight of a Moth (1904), Purple and Fine Linen (1906), Woven in the Tapestry (1908), The Title Market (1909), and The Eagle's Feather (1910). In 1916, she published By Motor to the Golden Gate – a recount of a road trip she made from New York to San Francisco with her son Edwin and another companion.
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