Editing Emily Post (section)

==Career==
[[File:Brooklyn Museum - Emily Post - Emil Fuchs - overall.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Post by [[Emil Fuchs (artist)|Emil Fuchs]], now housed in the [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]

Post began to write once her two sons were old enough to attend [[boarding school]]. Her early work included humorous travel books, newspaper articles on architecture and interior design, and magazine serials for ''[[Harper's]]'', ''[[Scribner's Magazine|Scribner's]]'', and ''[[The Century Magazine|The Century]]''. She wrote five novels: ''Flight of a Moth'' (1904), ''Purple and Fine Linen'' (1905), ''Woven in the Tapestry'' (1908), ''The Title Market'' (1909), and ''The Eagle's Feather'' (1910).<ref name="books.google.com"/> In 1916, she published ''By Motor to the Golden Gate—''a recount of a road trip she made from New York to San Francisco on the [[Lincoln Highway]] with her son Edwin and another companion.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Post|first1=Emily|title=By Motor to the Golden Gate|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028743015|date=1916|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|location=New York and London}}</ref>

Post wrote her first etiquette book ''[[Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home]]'' (1922, frequently referenced as ''Etiquette'') when she was 50.<ref name="Smith, Dinitia"/> It became a best-seller with numerous editions over the following decades.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infoplease.com/people/who2-biography/emily-post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034840/https://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/emilypost.html|url-status=dead|title=Emily Post|archive-date=March 4, 2016|website=InfoPlease}}</ref> After 1931, Post spoke on radio programs and wrote a column on good taste for the [[Bell Syndicate]]. The column appeared daily in over 200 newspapers after 1932.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=September 27, 1960|title=Emily Post Is Dead Here at 86; Writer Was Arbiter of Etiquette|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/27/99807917.html|url-access=subscription|access-date=September 25, 2021|archive-date=May 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505224230/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/27/99807917.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In her review of Claridge's 2008 biography of Post,<ref name="Claridge, Laura 2008"/> ''The New York Times''{{'}} Dinitia Smith explains the keys to Post's popularity:<ref name="Smith, Dinitia"/>

<blockquote>Such books had always been popular in America: the country's exotic mix of immigrants and [[Nouveau riche|newly rich]] were eager to fit in with the establishment. Men had to be taught not to blow their noses into their hands or to spit tobacco onto ladies' backs. [[Arthur M. Schlesinger]], who wrote ''Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books'' in 1946, said that etiquette books were part of "the leveling-up process of democracy," an attempt to resolve the conflict between the democratic ideal and the reality of class. But Post's etiquette books went far beyond those of her predecessors. They read like short-story collections with recurring characters: the Toploftys, the Eminents, the Richan Vulgars, the Gildings, and the Kindharts.</blockquote>

In 1946, Post founded [[The Emily Post Institute]], which continues her work.