Marjabelle Young Stewart

Marjabelle Young Stewart (16 May 1924 – 3 March 2007) was an American writer and expert on etiquette.

Marjabelle Young Stewart was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Marie and Clarence Cullen Bryant (a great-grandson of poet William Cullen Bryant). She and her three sisters lived in an orphanage after her parents divorced, where her youngest sister died of a mastoid infection at age 2. After her mother remarried they returned to live with her. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs. After graduating, at the age of 17, she married scientist Jack Davison Young and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1941. She worked in a naval yard before her involving in the area of modelling.[1]

Her beauty, which was said to resemble Rita Hayworth, pushed her to begin her modeling career. Young became one of Washington's top model and created her own agency in partnership with two other girls of that sphere. She became a model and came into contact with Washington society as a result. When she met the humorist columnist Art Buchwald, he proposed her a co-partnership with his wife in writing a book about etiquette. And Stewart cooperated with Ann Buchwald on two other joint books and then she started writing by her own.

She went on to teach etiquette and manners to children, including Richard M. Nixon's daughters, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's granddaughter and President Johnson's son.[1][2] Her husband organized a business which included the etiquette training technique where his wife began doing classes for professionals and college students.[1] She was going to classes armed with a complete place setting, which included china, 10 pieces of silverware, five different size crystal glasses, and "a silver salt cellar with accompanying shell-shaped spoon".[3]

She moved to Kewanee, Illinois, in 1965 after her divorce from Mr. Young and remarriage to attorney William E. Stewart. She created a network of etiquette classes, which at its height had locations in several hundred U.S. cities. These classes were called White Gloves (for girls) and Blue Blazers (for boys); they usually ran in cooperation with department stores. She wrote fifteen books on etiquette including, Marjabelle Stewart's Book of Modern Table Manners (1981), Can My Bridesmaids Wear Black? And 325 Other Most Asked Questions (1989), and Executive Etiquette in the New Workplace (1996).

In 1977 she began issuing a list of best-mannered cities, among which Charleston, S.C. always took the leading place, and every year the above-mentioned list was updated. During all these years Savannah, Georgia, Madison, Wisconsin, and, as a surprise, New York were occasionally in the list.[3]

Stewart died of pneumonia at a Kewanee nursing home, at the age of 82.[3]

List of books

  • The Complete Wedding Planner: 2nd Revised Edition, The Essential Guide to Planning Every Phase of Your Wedding (2002). Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 2nd Rev edition, ISBN 0312277113
  • Commonsense Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious, Simple Manners for the Twenty-First Century (1999). Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition, ISBN 0312242948
  • The New Etiquette: Real Manners for Real People in Real Situations--An A-to-Z Guide (1997). Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0312156022
  • Executive Etiquette: In the New Workplace (1995). Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; St Martin's Griffin ed edition, ISBN 0312141033
  • Little Ways To Say I Love You: Dozens of Simple Ways To Show Spouses, Lovers, Children, and Friends How Special They Are (1992). St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0312072376
  • Can My Bridesmaids Wear Black?-- And 325 Other Most-Asked Etiquette Questions (1989). Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1 edition, ISBN 0312033001
  • What to Do When and Why: At School, at Parties, at Home, in Your Growing World (1988). Publisher: Robert B Luce, ISBN 0883311054
  • Executive Etiquette: How to Make Your Way to the Top With Grace and Style by Marjabelle Young Stewart (1986-01-01) (1986). Publisher: St Martins Pr (1626), ASIN: B01K3K2UUY
  • The Teen Girl's Beauty Guide to Total Color Success (1986). Publisher: Signet Vista Books, ISBN 0451144538.
  • How Travl 4 Yng People (1985). Publisher: Random House Children's Books, ISBN 0679512071
  • Marjabelle Stewart's Book of Modern Table Manners (1981). Publisher: St Martins Pr; First Printing edition, ISBN 031251526X
  • New Etiquette Guide to Getting Married Again (1981). Publisher: Avon, ISBN 0380551861
  • Looking Pretty, Feeling Fine (1979). Publisher: Scholastic; First Edition edition, ISBN 0590312324
  • Your Complete Wedding Planner (1977). Publisher: David McKay Co; 7th Printing edition, ISBN 0679508139[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82; taught and wrote about etiquette". Los Angeles Times. 10 March 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Kiernan, Louise (21 July 1996). "Marjabelle's Civil Wars". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Fox, Margalit (11 March 2007). "Marjabelle Y. Stewart, 82, White-Gloved Author, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Books by Marjabelle Young Stewart". Amazon.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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