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The age of experience. (the lost art of manners and self-control in social situations) (Column)

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From: National Review
Date: 19931227
Author:Bridges, Linda

Edith Wharton's novel 'The Age of Innocence' and Emily Post's 'Etiquette' were published within two years of each other and reflect a time when social propriety was the norm rather than the exception. There is a longing for those gentler and respectable times.

IT IS SURELY no coincidence that Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and Emily Post's Etiquette were published just two years apart. By the early 1920s, it was becoming apparent that the world was not simply going to settle down, scarred but not essentially altered, to the status quo before the First World War. For Mrs. Post, ...

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