1872-1960
Writer, Authority of Etiquette, Interior Decorator

Genteel Beginnings.

Raised in a genteel, upper-class Manhattan home, young Emily Price personally embodied the ideals of etiquette that later made her famous. She was born in Baltimore but moved with her family to New York City in 1877, when her father, Bruce Price, gained national prominence as an architect. Price was reared by a governess and educated at Miss Graham's finishing school. Her extraordinary beauty and manners attracted wide attention.

Young Matron.

Soon after her New York society debut, Emily Price married Edwin M. Post, a businessman. The couple lived on Staten Island and then in Manhattan, and Emily Post made frequent trips to Europe. She wrote long, lively letters home while abroad, which she turned into her 1904 novel, The Flight of a Moth. The Posts had two sons, Edwin Jr. and Bruce Price, the latter of whom...