Emily Post, Laura Claridge
Emily Post, Laura Claridge
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Emily Post
Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

Author: Laura Claridge

Narrator: Christine Williams

Unabridged: 18 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/14/2008


Synopsis

The first biography of the iconic woman whose name stands for good manners, Emily Post tells the story of a woman who steadfastly recorded the shifting, tumultuous historical epochs that shaped herand that she helped shape. From the excesses of the late nineteenthcentury Gilded Age, through the horrors of World War I, to the transformations of the Roaring Twenties that gave birth to her magisterial Etiquette, Emily Post unfailingly took the measure of her era. A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, she helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book, which has been continuously in print for over eightyfive years.

About Laura Claridge

Laura Claridge received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2005 as well as the J. Anthony Lukas Award for Emily Post as a work in progress. Her books, which include Norman Rockwell: A Life, have been translated into multiple languages. The author has frequently appeared in the media, including NBC, BBC, CSPAN, NPR and The Today Show. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Koren on September 04, 2019

For those that dont know who Emily Post was, she was an author who is best known for her books on etiquette. Born in 1872 and died in 1960, a large part of this book takes place at the turn of the century. Emily was a strong woman, ahead of her time. She was divorced and worked outside of the home w......more

Goodreads review by Sarah Beth on February 26, 2016

Born in 1872, Emily Price Post was the only child of the prominent architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine. Emily grew up in New York, friends with the Astors, Roosevelts, Morgans, and Vanderbilts. She became a sought-after debutante, before marrying Edwin Price when she was just eighteen. Emil......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on September 05, 2008

This is an engaging portrait of Emily Post. Her life spanned the post-Civil War era to the Kennedy administration, and reflects many of the societal changes that took place in that era. I had no idea she was a novelist *and* amateur architect. (I will have to look for her novels.) The best sections......more

Goodreads review by Donna on April 15, 2009

I was disappointed by this book. It turned out to be more of a history book that felt like required reading for a college class rather than an interesting biography about a unique woman from history. The author includes way too much information about things that had no direct relevance to Emily Post......more

Goodreads review by Pat on January 22, 2012

What an amazing woman so far ahead of her times! Not content to spend her life following her husband's endless sailing or following her friends in their pursuit of the gilded life in the Gilded Age. She blazed the trail that her father introduced her to as an independent woman who loved being in cha......more