EMILY POST(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the
1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first
authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of
millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and
touchstone of proper behavior.
　　A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most
sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post.
It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the
trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing
novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of
project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a
fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest.
Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and
gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its
shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade
to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social
landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we
still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society
should behave.

　　Laura Claridge is the author of several books, including
Norman Rockwell: A Life and Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of
Deco and Decadence. Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded
Age, Mistress of American Manners received a National
Endowment for the Humanities grant and won the J. Anthony Lukas
Work-in-Progress Award. Claridge received her Ph.D. in British
Romanticism and literary theory and was a tenured professor of
English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis until 1997. She has
written features and reviews for The Boston Globe, Los Angeles
Times, and The Christian Science Monitor and has
appeared frequently in the national media, including Today,
CNN, NPR, and the BBC. She lives in New York’s Hudson
Valley.