Yet serving as the language and currency of civility, etiquette reduces those inevitable frictions of everyday life that, unchecked, are increasingly erupting into the outbursts of private and public violence so readily evident in road rage, drop-of-the-hat lawsuits, fractured families and other unwelcome byproducts of a manners-free existence. Her subject was for years dismissed as an archaic frill to be dispensed with by a world that was much too busy to trifle with such niceties.
Now if she could only persuade people to practice civility as much as they talk about it. About the Authorsīorn a perfect lady in an imperfect society, Judith Martin is the pioneer mother of today's civility movement. Martin was joined by her two perfect children, Nicholas and Jacobina, as co-writers for the Miss Manners column, adding generational wisdom and expanding the reach of insight. Readers send Miss Manners not only their table and party questions, but those involving the more complicated aspects of life - romance, work, family relationships, child-rearing, death - as well as philosophical and moral dilemmas. Judith Martin's Miss Manners column - distributed six times weekly and carried in more than 200 newspapers and digital outlets in the United States and abroad - has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978.
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