Editing Emily Post (section)

==Early life and education==
Post was born Emily Bruce Price in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], possibly in October 1872.<ref name="Smith, Dinitia">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/books/17book.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=October 16, 2008|title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES: She Fine-Tuned the Forks of the Richan Vulgars|author=Smith, Dinitia|access-date=February 24, 2017|archive-date=November 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112041554/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/books/17book.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> The precise date is unknown.<ref name=EP>{{cite book|title= Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners|last= Claridge|first= Laura|year= 2008|publisher= Random House|page= [https://archive.org/details/emilypostdaughte0000clar/page/16 16]|isbn= 9780375509216|url= https://archive.org/details/emilypostdaughte0000clar/page/16}}</ref>{{efn|Primary documents conflict with the birthdate that she usually gave: October 27, 1872. The burial records of her brother, William Lee Price, who died in infancy, give his dates as April 18, 1873 to December 6, 1875, but he could not have been born five months and 21 days after his sister. That she was born six months after he was is equally unlikely. Therefore, something is awry and is unresolvable from primary records. It is less likely for a contemporary burial record of a two-year-old to have gotten his birth year wrong than for an adult to have used an erroneous birth date.<ref name=EP/>}} Her father was the architect [[Bruce Price]], famed for designing luxury communities. Her mother Josephine (Lee) Price of [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]] was the daughter of Washington Lee, a wealthy coal baron and owner of a Pennsylvania mine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Post, Emily (1872–1960) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/post-emily-1872-1960 |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> After being educated at home in her early years, Price attended Miss Graham's [[finishing school]] in New York after her family moved there.<ref name="books.google.com">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xypn4djxVD4C&q=Price+attended+Miss+Graham%27s+finishing+school+Emily+Post&pg=RA2-PA224|title=Social History of the United States [10 volumes]|first1=Brian|last1=Greenberg|first2=Linda S.|last2=Watts|first3=Richard A.|last3=Greenwald|first4=Gordon|last4=Reavley|first5=Alice L.|last5=George|first6=Scott|last6=Beekman|first7=Cecelia|last7=Bucki|first8=Mark|last8=Ciabattari|first9=John C.|last9=Stoner|first10=Troy D.|last10=Paino|first11=Laurie|last11=Mercier|first12=Andrew|last12=Hunt|first13=Peter C.|last13=Holloran|first14=Nancy|last14=Cohen|date=October 23, 2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598841282|via=Google Books|access-date=December 10, 2020|archive-date=May 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505224229/https://books.google.com/books?id=xypn4djxVD4C&q=Price+attended+Miss+Graham%27s+finishing+school+Emily+Post&pg=RA2-PA224|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} Dinitia Smith reports, in her review of Laura Claridge's 2008 biography of Post,<ref name="Claridge, Laura 2008">{{cite book|author=Claridge, Laura|title=Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners|year=2008|publisher=Random House}}</ref>

<blockquote>Emily was tall, pretty and spoiled. [...] She grew up in a world of grand estates, her life governed by carefully delineated rituals like the [[Cotillion ball|cotillion]] with its complex forms and its dances—the Fan, the Ladies Mocked, Mother Goose—called out in dizzying turns by the dance master.<ref name="Smith, Dinitia"/></blockquote>

Price met her future husband, Edwin Main Post, a prominent banker, at a ball in a [[Fifth Avenue]] mansion. Following their wedding in 1892 and a honeymoon tour of Europe, they lived in New York's [[Washington Square Park|Washington Square]]. They also had a country cottage, named "Emily Post Cottage", in [[Tuxedo Park, New York|Tuxedo Park]], which was one of four [[Bruce Price Cottage]]s she inherited from her father. The couple moved to [[Staten Island]] and had two sons, Edwin Main Post Jr. (1893) and Bruce Price Post (1895).<ref name="Claridge"/>

Emily and Edwin divorced in 1905 because of his affairs with [[chorus girl]]s and fledgling actresses, which made him the target of [[blackmail]].<ref name="Claridge">{{cite book | last = Claridge | first = Laura | title = Emily Post | publisher = Random House | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-375-50921-6 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/emilypostdaughte0000clar/page/3 3–5, 165–70] | url = https://archive.org/details/emilypostdaughte0000clar/page/3 }}</ref>