Daughter of a wealthy architect, Emily Price Post wrote her Etiquette to try to bring common sense and flexibility to good manners. She published ten editions of her book and for many years also wrote a syndicated newspaper column and for a time also hosted a radio program.

Before becoming known for her Etiquette book, she also wrote fiction and nonfiction for magazines and wrote several novels.

Emily Post on the Web

• Biography - Emily Post Institute
• Photographs - Emily Post Institute
• The Emily Post Institute
• Online version of her 1922 Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

About Emily Post

• Categories: etiquette writer
• Places: United States
• Period: 20th century

Also on this site

• Women Writers  

Bibliography

• Emily Post's Etiquette - 16th edition, written by Emily Post's great-granddaughter-in-law, takes up such issues as email etiquette never imagined by the original 1922 edition.
   

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