The Original Miss Manners:
Laura Claridge has written the definitive biography of Emily Post. A long account at nearly 550 pages, the author has included every piece of information about her family of origin, her childhood, disasterous marriage and arbitrator of American manners. Fortunately, her chatty conversational style of writing saves the reader when one reads information that has little to do with the story. Ms. Post had an interesting life that became immortal when she decided to write a book about proper behavior in 1922. Being the first to do so made her famous and alone in her field for three decades. The author includes the cultural surroundings of her life to make this a book for the reader to go back in time. Her life stretched from the post Civil War era to the post World War II era until her death at the age of 88.
Emily Post:
Emily Post is written with thorough attention to detail, skillfully intertwining the private, public, and mythical icon into a very real person. Ms. Claridge intersperses this biography on with so many entertaining anecdotes that despite being a lengthy biography, it has a light touch. Ms. Claridge's writing has the wonderful combination of being both intellectually satisfying and very readable at the end of a long day.
Compelling, Hard to Put Down, A great Tell All of the Who's Who Too:
"Everything you ever wanted to know about society and etiquette. The perfect book for the person who is impossible to buy for. The compelling and remarkable story of a woman who overcame life's hurdles with style and grace to become the queen of what to and not to do."
Emily Post:
A good but long read...the first half of the book deals with Mrs. Post before her divorce ... the second half is after her divorce for Edwin Post and her writing and Interior Design careers...in the first half the reader is not to sure that the writer has her subject in very high esteem, the second the author becomes more sympathetic to her subject. This may be due to the authors illness and the when she wrote each part. This is a detailed biography not only about Emily Post but American culture from post Civil War to the 1960's. Tracing this evolution through the work of Emily is not a unique idea but Ms. Claridge does a good job of blending the transitions through the writing of the ten editions of Ms. Post main body of work on American manners.
Christmas gift:
This was a Christmas gift for my daughter and therefore I have not read the book. It did come in perfect condition and in a timely manner.
| Author: | Laura Claridge | | Binding: | Kindle Edition | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 920 | | Format: | Kindle Book | | Number Of Pages: | 544 | | Publication Date: | 2008-10-06 | | Release Date: | 2008-10-14 |
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