Post was born Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, possibly in October 1872 the precise date is unknown. [2] [a] Her father was the architect Bruce Price and her mother was Josephine (Lee) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After being educated at home in her early years, Price attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York after her family moved there. The New York Times ' Dinitia Smith reports, in her review of Laura Claridge's 2008 biography of Post. Emily was tall, pretty and spoiled. [...] She grew up in a ...
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Post was born Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, possibly in October 1872 the precise date is unknown. [2] [a] Her father was the architect Bruce Price and her mother was Josephine (Lee) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After being educated at home in her early years, Price attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York after her family moved there. The New York Times ' Dinitia Smith reports, in her review of Laura Claridge's 2008 biography of Post. 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 with its complex forms and its dances - the Fan, the Ladies Mocked, Mother Goose - called out in dizzying turns by the dance master.
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