Emily Post : daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners
2008
Book
Emily Post was a daughter of high society, one of Manhattan's most sought-after debutantes. 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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780375509216
- 0375509216
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 525 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations map, portraits ; 25 cm
Other Title:
- Daughter of the Gilded Age
- Mistress of American manners
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-503) and index.
LCCN: 2008301316
Control Number: 166551
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2008]Subjects:
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Etiquette -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Etiquette -- United States.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Post, Emily, 1872-1960 -- Philosophy.
- Post, Emily, 1872-1960.
- Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre: Biographies.