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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Post was born <strong>Emily Price</strong> 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.</p><p><em>The New York Times</em>' Dinitia Smith reports, in her review of Laura Claridge's 2008 biography of Post.</p>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.<p><br></p>

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