Next up will be “Miss Manners Minds Your Business,” which she is writing with her son, Nicholas, who is the director of operations at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Lest the next generation fall into bad habits, Martin is enlisting the services of her own “perfect children.” Her most recent book, “Miss Manners’ Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding,” was written with her daughter, Jacobina, who teaches improv comedy at Second City in Chicago. Even when meticulous research had been done, on costumes and settings, for example, there was none on how they were used.” Alas, all that it meant was that the dramatists or filmmakers believed their own manners to be eternal and universal. “When I started as a drama and film critic for the weekend section of The Washington Post,” she recalled in a recent e-mail, “I would assume that a character who flagrantly violated the manners of the time was meant to be interpreted as a parvenu, a cad, a revolutionary, an eccentric or a villain. Even when Martin isn’t on duty, she remains a vigilant observer.
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