In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

King's first book publiFlorence Kingd under her own name was 1975's Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. In many of her writings King often refers to the comical contradictions between the material reality of her upbringing (lower middle class) and the snobbish behavior of her grandmother. She also wrote a historical romance novel Barbarian Princess under the pseudonym Laura Buchanan.

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King is a traditionalist conservative but not a "movement conservative" and Florence King objects to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right. Florence Virginia King (b.