Great article! But Emily Post's husband was Edwin Main Post, not Edwin A. Wall--you may have mistakenly taken it from this NYT book review where a sentence ends in Edwin and the next begins by describing him as a Wall St Broker: "Mann enjoyed the double if paradoxical rewards of crime and sanctimony until 1905, when he miscalculated by making an ill-judged attempt to blackmail Emily Post's husband, Edwin. A Wall Street stockbroker mired in a financial bad patch, and on strained and distant terms with his wife, Post had been supporting a Broadway chorine in what the euphemism of the day called a "white apartment" in Stamford, Connecticut."
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Great article! But Emily Post's husband was Edwin Main Post, not Edwin A. Wall--you may have mistakenly taken it from this NYT book review where a sentence ends in Edwin and the next begins by describing him as a Wall St Broker: "Mann enjoyed the double if paradoxical rewards of crime and sanctimony until 1905, when he miscalculated by making an ill-judged attempt to blackmail Emily Post's husband, Edwin. A Wall Street stockbroker mired in a financial bad patch, and on strained and distant terms with his wife, Post had been supporting a Broadway chorine in what the euphemism of the day called a "white apartment" in Stamford, Connecticut."