Emily Post (October 27, 1872 - September 25, 1960) was an American author famous for writing on etiquette.
Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland on October of 1872. Her father was the architect Bruce Price and her mother Josephine (Lee) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After being educated at home in her early years, she attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York after her family moved there.
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 the Continent, they lived in New York’s Washington Square. 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 had made him the target of blackmail.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. being good
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. science
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