Emily Post Daughter Of The Gilded Age, Mistress Of American Manners
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Laura Claridge
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780375509216
- 14 oktober 2008
- 525 pagina's
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What would Emily Post do? Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on good manners who has outlasted all comers? Award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of the unforgettable woman who changed the mindset of millions of Americans, an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s.
Born shortly after the Civil War, Emily Post was a daughter of high society, the only child of an ambitious Baltimore architect, Bruce Price, and his wellborn wife. Within a few years of his daughters birth, Price moved his family to New York City, where they mingled with the Roosevelts and the Astors as well as with the new crowd in townJ. P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt clan. Blossoming into one of Manhattans most sought-after debutantes, Emily went on to marry Edwin Post, planning to re-create in her own home the happiness shed observed between her parents. Instead, she would find herself in the middle of a scandalous divorce, its humiliating details splashed across the front pages of New York newspapers for months.
Traumatic though it was, the end of her marriage forced Emily Post to become her own person. She would spend the next fifteen years writing novels and attending high-powered literary events alongside the likes of Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, but in middle age she decided she would try something different.
When it debuted in 1922 with a tiny first print run, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisestand a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquettes tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which Etiquette took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with Americas constantly changing social landscape.
A tireless advocate for middle-class and immigrant Americans, Emily Post became the emblem of a new kind of manners in which etiquette and ethics were forever entwined. Now, nearly fifty years after her death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.
Praise for Emily Post
Given the ubiquitousness of her repeatedly revised magnum opus, Etiquette, first published in 1922, we think of Emily Post as an institution rather than a human being. But she was a woman of substance and sensitivity. The first to fully portray this pioneer, Claridge is becoming the sort of biographer readers will follow anywhere, and one hopes shell continue in the vein that yielded Norman Rockwell (2001) and now this absorbing study of a keenly perceptive ethicist second only to Eleanor Roosevelt in the immensity of her influence. A child of privilege born in the wake of the Civil War, smart and beautiful Emily Price married a rascal. The pain and humiliation of her divorce from Edwin Post fostered her devotion to writing (she was a successful novelist) and seeded the compassion and advocacy for women that shaped her highly moral approach to etiquette. Claridge chronicles Posts remarkable ability to discern the needs of a Claridge chronicles Posts remarkable ability to discern the needs of a burgeoning American public transformed by immigration, industrialization, war, and womens and civil rights, and hungry for guidance in social and familial situations. A best-selling writer and hugely popular radio personality, Post equated etiquette with character and ensured a democratization of manners. Claridge greatly deepens our appreciation for Posts achievements and brings forward the impressive woman behind the dos and donts. ---Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
It was the genius of Emily Post to show us that manners are the small coin of morality .Emily Post became perhaps the most im
Born shortly after the Civil War, Emily Post was a daughter of high society, the only child of an ambitious Baltimore architect, Bruce Price, and his wellborn wife. Within a few years of his daughters birth, Price moved his family to New York City, where they mingled with the Roosevelts and the Astors as well as with the new crowd in townJ. P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt clan. Blossoming into one of Manhattans most sought-after debutantes, Emily went on to marry Edwin Post, planning to re-create in her own home the happiness shed observed between her parents. Instead, she would find herself in the middle of a scandalous divorce, its humiliating details splashed across the front pages of New York newspapers for months.
Traumatic though it was, the end of her marriage forced Emily Post to become her own person. She would spend the next fifteen years writing novels and attending high-powered literary events alongside the likes of Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, but in middle age she decided she would try something different.
When it debuted in 1922 with a tiny first print run, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisestand a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquettes tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which Etiquette took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with Americas constantly changing social landscape.
A tireless advocate for middle-class and immigrant Americans, Emily Post became the emblem of a new kind of manners in which etiquette and ethics were forever entwined. Now, nearly fifty years after her death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.
Praise for Emily Post
Given the ubiquitousness of her repeatedly revised magnum opus, Etiquette, first published in 1922, we think of Emily Post as an institution rather than a human being. But she was a woman of substance and sensitivity. The first to fully portray this pioneer, Claridge is becoming the sort of biographer readers will follow anywhere, and one hopes shell continue in the vein that yielded Norman Rockwell (2001) and now this absorbing study of a keenly perceptive ethicist second only to Eleanor Roosevelt in the immensity of her influence. A child of privilege born in the wake of the Civil War, smart and beautiful Emily Price married a rascal. The pain and humiliation of her divorce from Edwin Post fostered her devotion to writing (she was a successful novelist) and seeded the compassion and advocacy for women that shaped her highly moral approach to etiquette. Claridge chronicles Posts remarkable ability to discern the needs of a Claridge chronicles Posts remarkable ability to discern the needs of a burgeoning American public transformed by immigration, industrialization, war, and womens and civil rights, and hungry for guidance in social and familial situations. A best-selling writer and hugely popular radio personality, Post equated etiquette with character and ensured a democratization of manners. Claridge greatly deepens our appreciation for Posts achievements and brings forward the impressive woman behind the dos and donts. ---Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
It was the genius of Emily Post to show us that manners are the small coin of morality .Emily Post became perhaps the most im
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