Emily Post
Subtitle: daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
By: Laura Claridge.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780375509216
Subjects: Post, Emily, -- 1873-1960; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Etiquette -- United States; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-503) and index.