Elizabeth Lindley Post (May 7, 1920 – April 24, 2010) was an American
etiquette
Etiquette () is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a ...
writer, the granddaughter-in-law of
Emily Post
Emily Post ( Price; October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960) was an American author, novelist, and socialite, famous for writing about etiquette.
Early life
Post was born Emily Bruce Price in Baltimore, Maryland, possibly in October 1872. Th ...
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Born the third child of Allen Ledyard Lindley and Elizabeth Ellsworth Lindley,
[Elizabeth Lindley Post, Etiquette Author, Successor to Emily Post, Dies at 89]
PR Newswire she was the great-granddaughter of
Cyrus Field. Elizabeth Lindley's first husband was Lt. George Eustis Cookman, USN, who was killed in action in 1943. They had one son, Allen, who took his stepfathers last name. She married William Goadby Post, the only grandchild of Emily Post, in 1944.
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She succeeded Emily Post at The Emily Post Institute and served as director for over 30 years. Elizabeth Post revised and updated '' Emily Post's Etiquette'' five times from 1965 to 1992, with her last revision selling more than 80,000 copies. She also wrote the "Etiquette for Everyday" column published monthly in '' Good Housekeeping'' magazine. She authored more than ten other books, including ''Emily Post's Complete Book of Wedding Etiquette,'' ''Emily Post on Business Etiquette,'' and ''Emily Post on Entertaining,''.
She retired in 1995 and was succeeded by daughter-in-law ]Peggy Post
Peggy Post is an American author and consultant on etiquette. She is Emily Post's great-granddaughter-in-law and continues her work as director and spokesperson for The Emily Post Institute in Vermont.
Background
Post was born in Washington, D.C ...
in her duties at the Emily Post Institute and ''Good Housekeeping'' column.
Mrs. Post was known to family and friends as "Libby".[ ] According to Peggy Post: "Libby was very open minded, fair and flexible... She was full of common sense and kindness. Not at all pretentious and not at all stuffy." Post enjoyed fishing alongside her husband, and she landed the largest tarpon caught by a woman in the United States.[Etiquette expert Elizabeth Post dies at 89]
Burlington Free Press
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People from Englewood, New Jersey
1920 births
2010 deaths
Writers from New Jersey
Etiquette writers
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