Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership
Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Philandering husband ed when Post found himself blackmailed by a
Speaker 2: scorned mistress who threatened to go public with their affair
Speaker 2: unless he paid her and her publisher to stay silent.
Speaker 2: This is a story about blackmail, but it isn't actually
Speaker 2: a story about Edwin. Not really. This is a story
Speaker 2: about how his wife, Emily Post, suffered the humiliations of
Speaker 2: his actions and the blackmail that ensued and then came
Speaker 2: out on top. Let's hop back to New York City
Speaker 2: during the Gilded Age for this story of adultery, blackmail
Speaker 2: and best selling books. Welcome to Criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarky
Speaker 2: and I'm Holly Frye. Emily Post was born Emily Price
Speaker 2: in eighteen seventy two, the only child of Josephine Lee,
Speaker 2: a cole heiress and famous architect Bruce Price. Born into
Speaker 2: a wealthy and socially prominent family in Baltimore, she was
Speaker 2: educated by a German governess, and after the families moved
Speaker 2: to New York City, she was enrolled in Miss Graham's
Speaker 2: finishing School. Her family was close with the astors, the Morgans,
Speaker 2: and the Vanderbilts. She made her social debut in New
Speaker 2: York society shortly before meeting her future husband, Edwin Main Post,
Speaker 2: a prominent banker, at a ball in a Fifth Avenue mansion.
Speaker 2: They married during the summer of eighteen ninety possibly eighteen
Speaker 2: ninety two, and then they settled in New York City.
Speaker 2: They also had a country cottage that was called Emily
Speaker 2: Post Cottage in Tuxedo Park, New York. It was one
Speaker 2: of four cottages she inherited from her father. The Tuxedo
Speaker 2: Park community was one of his designs, and he had
Speaker 2: named that cottage after his daughter. The couple had two sons,
Speaker 2: Edwin Mayne Post Junior born in eighteen ninety three and
Speaker 2: Bruce Price Post born in eighteen ninety five. Edwin Post
Speaker 2: was not a good husband. He had little interest in
Speaker 2: his wife except for her money and her social position,
Speaker 2: and he was known for his serial and hardly secretive
Speaker 2: extramarital affairs with chorus girls and starlet's. The Post's marriage
Speaker 2: had become distant about a dozen years in Emily divorced
Speaker 2: him after one jilted lover made him the target of
Speaker 2: blackmail scandal in their social circle was not a scent
Speaker 2: you wanted lingering around you. Edwin's role here as adulterer
Speaker 2: and victim of blackmail, it turns out, was actually a
Speaker 2: catalyst for what Emily would become. And you'll see this
Speaker 2: as their story unfolds. Yes, we are talking about the
Speaker 2: Emily Post whom we today know was a quote fun
Speaker 2: loving Benjo playing workaholic who became the go to on
Speaker 2: etiquette advice. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1: In late April of nineteen oh five, Edwin ended an
Speaker 1: affair with a young woman actor, but she continued to
Speaker 1: make romantic gestures toward him and seeking his attentions. She
Speaker 1: returned to the Connecticut cottage that he kept solely for
Speaker 1: his lovers. When he spurned her advances, she took revenge.
Speaker 1: She strategically contacted the office of Colonel William Dalton Mann,
Speaker 1: a Civil War soldier turned gossip columnist. Colonel Man, who
Speaker 1: was a Civil War hero, was described as both suave
Speaker 1: and condescending. You'll also find him described as looking a
Speaker 1: lot like a stereotypical Santa Claus. We don't know what
Speaker 1: that's about. Did he wear red? Was it his beard?
Speaker 1: We really don't know, but that is one description that
Speaker 1: you'll see. He was the owner and publisher of a
Speaker 1: gossip sheet called Town Topics, and he was no stranger
Speaker 1: to scandal.
Speaker 2: Man wouldn't allow sloppy grammar or poor writing in his publications.
Speaker 2: That he was just fine with extortion to get the
Speaker 2: stories he wanted and a little money in his pocket.
Speaker 2: He'd previously had his hand in several blackmail schemes, and
Speaker 2: he actually had an organized plan ready to execute for
Speaker 2: demanding money in exchange for keeping the love affairs of
Speaker 2: high powered businessmen under wraps. He hired or paid off
Speaker 2: domestic workers, friends, spouses, and family members to spy on
Speaker 2: his potential victims. He would then bully those victims into
Speaker 2: paying for a subscription. If you didn't hear my air quotes,
Speaker 2: they were there to an expensive book. Subscription prices were
Speaker 2: set on a victim buy a victim basis. The book,
Speaker 2: by the way, was fake, and the subscription price was
Speaker 2: just code for blackmail.
Speaker 1: Through friends and the rumor. Mill Edwin was already familiar
Speaker 1: with Man's scheme before he became a target of it himself.
Speaker 1: Mostly people in his social circle just paid the requested
Speaker 1: blackmail money and moved on. Representatives of Town Topics contacted Edwin,
Speaker 1: and Charles All, who was Man's second in command, suggested
Speaker 1: that he and Edwin should meet as as soon as possible,
Speaker 1: and they did in June of nineteen oh five. Town Topics.
Speaker 1: It was explained to him was going to go public
Speaker 1: with details of Edwin's affairs, but they would suppress the
Speaker 1: gossip if he subscribed to a vanity book that they
Speaker 1: intended to print sometime in the distant future. Five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars Town Topics, editors suggested would cover the costs, and
Speaker 1: remember this was a fake book and the five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars was hush money. All added that the other men
Speaker 1: had been quote taxed at a greater amount for similar reasons.
Speaker 1: Mann referred to this scheme in those he targeted as
Speaker 1: his Gilded Age prey, a group of select men and
Speaker 1: women who were basically stalked by the writers and editors
Speaker 1: of his publication. He had a group of wealthy New
Speaker 1: Yorkers that he took great pleasure in stealing money from
Speaker 1: through his extortion schemes, and this went on for years.
Speaker 2: Edwins sought advice from prominent society lawyer Phoenix Ingram, who
Speaker 2: insisted that Emily be brought into the discussion. It was
Speaker 2: agreed the Posts would not pay man. But before we
Speaker 2: start talking about how the blackmail scheme went down, we're
Speaker 2: going to take a break for a word from our sponsors,
Speaker 2: and when we're back, we will talk about how the
Speaker 2: scandal played out in the headlines and at home.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. So let's talk about how when
Speaker 1: confronted with a divorce, Emily Post blossomed in a new
Speaker 1: writing career.
Speaker 2: Instead of giving in to the demands, pay the money
Speaker 2: or pay the price of public humiliation when your affairs
Speaker 2: go public in print, Edwin decided to stand up to
Speaker 2: the blackmailers and expose them, hoping it would make him
Speaker 2: look like a hero. Some versions of Edwin's story suggest
Speaker 2: that while his wife was from a wealthy family, Edwin,
Speaker 2: due to bad investments during the Panic of nineteen oh one,
Speaker 2: personally did not have the funds to make the whole
Speaker 2: thing go away. He contacted authorities and was involved in
Speaker 2: a sting to have the blackmailers caught and arrested. They
Speaker 2: were apprehended by police in a local restaurant while waiting
Speaker 2: for their payment Charles Hall too was arrested in Edwin's
Speaker 2: Wall Street office, and he was prosecuted and convicted of extortion.
Speaker 1: Edwin's colleagues celebrated him for standing up to threats, and
Speaker 1: some versions of history suggest that he even received a
Speaker 1: standing ovation on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Speaker 1: Whether that's true or not, Edwin did raise his social
Speaker 1: status by standing up to bullying in blackmail, but his
Speaker 1: wife did not receive similar celebration. In mid July of
Speaker 1: nineteen oh five, both the New York Times and the
Speaker 1: New York Tribune began publishing running commentary of Edwin's blackmail situation.
Speaker 1: Across The front page of the Tribune splashed the headline
Speaker 1: Stockbroker's way of dealing with bribe offer Edwin, post, the
Speaker 1: article stated, was a partner in a brokerage firm and
Speaker 1: summered with his wife and children in Tuxedo Park. The
Speaker 1: Baltimore Son, which was Emily's hometown paper, ran a short
Speaker 1: front page article on Edwin's affair, but did not mention
Speaker 1: that Emily was the daughter of Baltimore's famous and celebrated
Speaker 1: architect Bruce Price. The New York Times did portray Edwin
Speaker 1: as the hero he wanted to be kind of. However,
Speaker 1: in trade, Edwin had publicly exposed his infidelity and embarrassed
Speaker 1: his wife. As the gossip and then his subsequent lawsuit
Speaker 1: against town topics were splashed across New York City papers
Speaker 1: four months for everyone to read. Of all involved, the
Speaker 1: name of Edwin's paramore seems to have been the only
Speaker 1: name kept secret during this whole blackmail case.
Speaker 2: Divorced during the Gilded Age, one possible, but society frowned
Speaker 2: upon it. Plus it was incredibly difficult to obtain one
Speaker 2: in many areas of the country. While suffering through the
Speaker 2: days of the blackmail's scheme, Emily insisted on maintaining appearances
Speaker 2: and would go to meet Edwin at the train each night,
Speaker 2: only to return home each night alone. She would later
Speaker 2: say that she and Edwin together decided to expose his blackmailers,
Speaker 2: but historians, including her biographer, disagree with that. Rose colored
Speaker 2: Glass's view of her marriage's final act. Though Edwin and
Speaker 2: his lawyer warned her of the impending storm, it's believed
Speaker 2: she was not involved in the decision. It's also believed
Speaker 2: her revision of the event was her attempt to conceal
Speaker 2: Edwin's failure to protect her his wife from social humiliation.
Speaker 2: The couple divorced about a year later.
Speaker 1: Emily never forgave Edwin. Later, she would write quote, the
Speaker 1: man who publicly dismirches his wife's name besmirches still more
Speaker 1: his own and proves that he is not, was not,
Speaker 1: and never will be a gentleman. She was opposed to
Speaker 1: divorce both before and after her own experience, and never
Speaker 1: had another romantic relationship. In her article called on the
Speaker 1: Care of Husbands, which ran in Life magazine three years
Speaker 1: after the divorce, Emily openly chastised women who paid more
Speaker 1: attention to winning the vote than to ensuring their husbands
Speaker 1: were comfortable and content. The vote in this instance is
Speaker 1: of course, in reference to women's suffrage women's legal right
Speaker 1: to vote in elections in the United States.
Speaker 2: Emily rarely mentioned her ex husband after their divorce, and
Speaker 2: neither does history. According to Emily's grantson Billy quote, she
Speaker 2: never once mentioned Edwin in my hearing, nor did she
Speaker 2: ever speak of remarrying. I have absolutely no idea whether
Speaker 2: my grandmother wanted to divorce Edwin or not. What I
Speaker 2: do know, without a doubt is that she did not
Speaker 2: wish her personal problems to become public. Ever, Emily went
Speaker 2: on to transform herself into an expert on successful marriage
Speaker 2: and the ins and outs of daily etiquette. You could
Speaker 2: say the blackmail and eventual divorce led her into a
Speaker 2: successful writing career.
Speaker 1: Remarrying was the traditional path for a woman of her
Speaker 1: status in the early nineteen hundreds, but with no interest
Speaker 1: in another relationship and no forthcoming financial support from Edwin,
Speaker 1: Emily charted a different path. Her writing career began in
Speaker 1: roughly nineteen oh two ish when Francis Hopkinson Smith, who
Speaker 1: was a family friend, passed along some of her letters
Speaker 1: to an editor at Ainsley's Magazine. It was after the
Speaker 1: tragedy of her marriage that Emily really flourished. She became
Speaker 1: a novelist, a travel correspondent, and a syndicated columnist, and
Speaker 1: she raised two sons. And that is all before she
Speaker 1: became famous for her writings on etiquette, which is probably
Speaker 1: how many of us best know her. Edwin had discouraged
Speaker 1: her creative talents and interests, but after their divorce he
Speaker 1: no longer stood in her way. She published five novels,
Speaker 1: Flight of a Moth in nineteen oh four, Purple and
Speaker 1: Fine Linen in nineteen oh five, Woven in the Tapestry
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh eight, The Title Market in nineteen oh nine,
Speaker 1: and The Eagles Feather in nineteen ten. In nineteen oh nine,
Speaker 1: Emily's mother tragically died in a car accident, leaving her
Speaker 1: daughter a large inheritance. Her father had already passed away
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh three, so she had enough money to
Speaker 1: live on, but Emily chose to stay in the writing game.
Speaker 2: On April twenty fifth, nineteen fifteen, Emily left on an
Speaker 2: adventurous road trip from New York to San Francisco with
Speaker 2: her son Edwin and her cousin Alice Beatleston. This was adventurous, yes,
Speaker 2: but it was also dangerous. Both cars and roads across
Speaker 2: the United States weren't always up for the trip. At
Speaker 2: this time, it was shocking for a woman to engage
Speaker 2: in such a thing. It took twenty seven days and
Speaker 2: close to eighteen hundred dollars, but the trio made it.
Speaker 2: Emily's cross country story was published by Collier's Weekly in
Speaker 2: three parts on September fourth, September eleventh, and September eighteenth,
Speaker 2: and it was so well received it was turned into
Speaker 2: a book called by Motor to the Golden Gate and
Speaker 2: published in nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break here for a word
Speaker 1: from our sponsors, and when we return we'll talk about
Speaker 1: when and how Emily Post famously became the go to
Speaker 1: on all things etiquette.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's talk about Emily's famous etiquette
Speaker 2: book and what it did for her career.
Speaker 1: The six hundred and fifty page Etiquette, the Blue Book
Speaker 1: of Social Usage, was published by Funk and Wagnalls in
Speaker 1: July of nineteen twenty two, when Emily was fifty years old.
Speaker 1: Referred to then and now simply as Etiquette, the book
Speaker 1: became a bestseller, despite its author allegedly stating quote domestic
Speaker 1: details bore me. The way Post herself liked to tell
Speaker 1: the story, she hated the idea of writing a book
Speaker 1: that told people how they should act. Long after she
Speaker 1: became the Queen of etiquette, Emily would claim that it
Speaker 1: was Frank Crowninshield, the long standing editor of Vanity Fair magazine,
Speaker 1: who had put her up to it. She claimed that
Speaker 1: he had urged her to consider all of the people
Speaker 1: who would benefit from such instruction, including quote, all those
Speaker 1: new war wives desperate to know how to write a
Speaker 1: thank you note, all those immigrants who had made it
Speaker 1: to our country before the rules tightened, all those new
Speaker 1: money people ashamed to admit they had no idea how
Speaker 1: to behave in society. So whether that story is true
Speaker 1: or not. In nineteen twenty one, she was approached by
Speaker 1: Richard Duffy of Funk and Wagnall's and asked to consider
Speaker 1: writing a book on etiquette. She agreed to do it
Speaker 1: only because she quote took issue with the content in
Speaker 1: the available books on the subject. According to her biographer,
Speaker 1: though Emily had actually proposed this very type of book
Speaker 1: to a literary agent years earlier who had dismissed it
Speaker 1: as unworthy of her, she got there somehow, regardless of
Speaker 1: which Path and Etiquette was a nonfiction bestseller.
Speaker 2: She'd hit a nerve, and Emily's advice about everything from
Speaker 2: forks to greetings became incredibly popular at this time. In
Speaker 2: the United States. For instance, people weren't always taught not
Speaker 2: to blow their noses into their hands, or that propping
Speaker 2: one's elbows on the table at dinner quote really makes
Speaker 2: no difference. Her books helped people fit in every edition
Speaker 2: of Etiquette emphasized her one basic rule to make the
Speaker 2: other person feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: In addition to writing, she also established herself on the air,
Speaker 1: talking about etiquette on her own radio show sponsored by
Speaker 1: General Electric. Her program was so popular President Franklin Roosevelt
Speaker 1: stated that the greatest compliment he'd received when he started
Speaker 1: his own fireside chats was quote, you're as good as
Speaker 1: Emily Post. She received thousands of letters a week and
Speaker 1: wrote a monthly column in McCall's magazine. In addition to
Speaker 1: content creation, in becoming a star media personality, she endorsed
Speaker 1: all kinds of products, from cigarettes to gingerbread, and she
Speaker 1: financed the construction of a fourteen story apartment building at
Speaker 1: the corner of Madison Avenue in seventy ninth Street in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: She moved into apartment nine B and in what sounds
Speaker 1: like the dreamiest arrangement, her friends filled the rest of
Speaker 1: the building.
Speaker 2: Since the first edition of Etiquette found its audience, the
Speaker 2: name of Emily Post has become synonymous with all things etiquette,
Speaker 2: and in nineteen forty six, after sixty five reprints of
Speaker 2: her book book, Emily founded the Emily Post Institute with
Speaker 2: her son. Four years later, Pageant magazine named her the
Speaker 2: second most powerful woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Post. Historians,
Speaker 2: including the Emily Post Institute and her biographer, believe that
Speaker 2: at the heart of her philosophy of life was kindness,
Speaker 2: and Emily tells us just that in the very first
Speaker 2: edition of her etiquette book, quote best society is not
Speaker 2: a fellowship of the wealthy, nor does it seek to
Speaker 2: exclude those who are not of exalted birth. But it
Speaker 2: is an association of gentlefolk, of which good form and speech,
Speaker 2: charm of manner, knowledge of the social amenities, and instinctive
Speaker 2: consideration for the feelings of others are the credentials. When
Speaker 2: she died at the age of eighty six, Life magazine
Speaker 2: reported that quote, the world has lost its best known
Speaker 2: arbiter of good conduct, and that is our Emily Post.
Speaker 2: Blackmails stories really a story about Emily, not Edwin.
Speaker 1: I like that this is one where the person who's
Speaker 1: most harmed by the whole thing comes out on top
Speaker 1: of We don't always get.
Speaker 2: There, We almost never get those.
Speaker 1: Would you like a little coercion concoction?
Speaker 2: I would love to hear about this drink? I hear,
Speaker 2: it's delightful.
Speaker 1: The drink I think is pretty yummy. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing that Emily is very interesting in a variety of ways,
Speaker 1: one of which was Emily is alleged to have never
Speaker 1: had a drop of alcohol in her life. What's very
Speaker 1: very interesting about her is she was also against prohibition
Speaker 1: because she was not a teetotalert. This is a really
Speaker 1: interesting time in American history where a lot of the people,
Speaker 1: or a significant fraction of the people who were really
Speaker 1: pushing for prohibition were women who had probably most of
Speaker 1: them been exposed to some really bad experiences because of
Speaker 1: men who could not control their relationship with alcohol, and
Speaker 1: so that was a big driver of it. But Emily
Speaker 1: is this weird outlier because aside from the fact that
Speaker 1: she also was not about the right to vote. But
Speaker 1: we're going to look over that.
Speaker 2: Kind of novice. I'm going to go with time and below.
Speaker 1: But then she was like, no, I don't think prohibition's good.
Speaker 1: You should let people make their own choices, which is
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Yeah, one for this concoction, We're going to
Speaker 1: start with the mocktail, since she was not a drinker,
Speaker 1: But this mocktail has its own function. I will say,
Speaker 1: and I'll explain it at the end. This is called
Speaker 1: good conduct, by the way, and it starts with a
Speaker 1: half an ounce of rosemary syrup, which you were going
Speaker 1: to put in your shaking tin, with three quarters of
Speaker 1: an ounce of lemon juice and an ounce and a
Speaker 1: half of pineapple nectar, and give that a shake because
Speaker 1: you have a lot of sugar in there, and you
Speaker 1: want the citrus to break down your sugar so everything
Speaker 1: can come together nicely. And then you're just going to
Speaker 1: strain that into like a double rocks glass with in it,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna top it with three ounces of ginger ale.
Speaker 1: You can hit it with like a dash or two
Speaker 1: of angusterra bitters and then garnish it with a rosemary sprig.
Speaker 1: This is a delicious drink. I am in love with
Speaker 1: this thing. I want to make it constantly. But the
Speaker 1: whole idea that I was trying to work on while
Speaker 1: I made this was that I wanted to make a
Speaker 1: drink that a good hostess could offer any of her
Speaker 1: guests with the option that whatever spirit of their choice
Speaker 1: would go into it and they would all work. So
Speaker 1: if you want to add an ounce and a half
Speaker 1: of gin great an ounce and a half of vodka,
Speaker 1: great an ounce and a half of the whiskey of
Speaker 1: your choice. Whether you're into like Canadian whiskey or a
Speaker 1: rye or a bourbon, they're all gonna work in this drink.
Speaker 1: The flavor of it is what I would call refined,
Speaker 1: but not stuffy. It's interesting. The flavors all do nice
Speaker 1: things together, but it's not like, fancy, just drink your drink.
Speaker 1: I made mine with a rhubarb gin that I had
Speaker 1: found at our local liquor story recently.
Speaker 2: I was delicious, delicious.
Speaker 1: But I really wanted to come up with something that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you were having a soiree and you
Speaker 1: wanted like your signature drink or whatever, you could make
Speaker 1: and then the guests all. You have made them all
Speaker 1: feel comfortable by saying, if you would like to add
Speaker 1: the spirit of your choice, we can absolutely do that.
Speaker 1: But if you don't want any, the main drink is fine,
Speaker 1: and it has no alcohol. Donna obviously for some people,
Speaker 1: if you really are hardcore and you do absolutely not
Speaker 1: a drop, leave those bitters out. It's not a big
Speaker 1: change trips that just adds a little flavors in to it.
Speaker 1: But this felt like the best way I could stay
Speaker 1: in line and honor Emily Post's ideology while still making
Speaker 1: drinks of plenty. This is also a really easy one
Speaker 1: to batch. If you are having people over, you can
Speaker 1: the rosemary syrup and the lemon juice and pineapple nectar.
Speaker 1: Just scale up your numbers, make a picture and then
Speaker 1: just add that top it with your ginger ales so
Speaker 1: you still have bubbles when people drinking it. And then
Speaker 1: obviously you can stir in whatever spirit they delight in
Speaker 1: and that will make it easy.
Speaker 2: Piec.
Speaker 1: I want to try this with Bourbon day.
Speaker 2: I actually have pineapple ube and the refrigerator right now,
Speaker 2: so I will be experimenting with different ones.
Speaker 1: I know it will work, but I want a different
Speaker 1: You know, recently we had Rye on the show. I
Speaker 1: think I might want to play with that this evening.
Speaker 1: But in any case, that is good conduct because it's
Speaker 1: the best way I could think of to make everybody
Speaker 1: who might be at your house comfortable. This happens a lot.
Speaker 1: I think most of our mocktail drinkers in the crowd
Speaker 1: know that when you go out, you don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of options for drinks, and even if you go
Speaker 1: to a party. There are not a lot of great
Speaker 1: non alcoholic drinks that are actually drinks that are like
Speaker 1: put together as a thing and not just here is
Speaker 1: your ginger Ale with a little grenadine in it or whatever,
Speaker 1: which is fine if that's what you love, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But the idea of making something that is uniquely itself
Speaker 1: and a little bit special so everybody feels like they're
Speaker 1: included right out of the jump and you're not the
Speaker 1: weird outlier.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of the vegetarian party problem, where you're
Speaker 2: always a flatbread with rist and red peppers.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sorry to the vegetarians in the crowd, because
Speaker 1: I have seen it happen. Some people that don't drink
Speaker 1: are perfectly happy and are like I would like ginger
Speaker 1: ale or a club soda or whatever, and that's totally cool.
Speaker 1: But I like the idea of welcoming people with the
Speaker 1: drink that everyone can partake in. It's very emily post inclusive.
Speaker 1: Make everybody feel good. That's my hippie rejoinder, the good conduct.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful that you were here with us.
Speaker 1: If you were here with us in our physical space,
Speaker 1: I would make pictures and pictures of this for everyone
Speaker 1: to drink, and we will be right back here next
Speaker 1: week with another story of blackmail and another coercion concoction.
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