Emily Post Studies

“Well,” my mother often said, “you’ll never have tea with the Queen.” This was usually in response to some breach of etiquette—elbows on the table or maybe something more indelicate like burping. It’s true that I haven’t had tea with the Queen (yet), but I did just review Laura Claridge’s Emily Post: Daughter of the Golden Age, Mistress of Manners. Here’s a link to the piece in the Los Angeles Times. Also, the full text of Emily Post’s Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, first published in 1922, can be downloaded here.