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Town Topics: The Journal of Society was a magazine published in New York City by William d'Alton Mann [1] and others from 1879 to 1937 (v. 1-105, no. 56). Title varies: Andrew's American Queen; Art, Music, Literature and Society (Jan. 1879-Sept. 16, 1882); and American Queen (Sept. 23, 1882-Feb. 21, 1885)
The Four Hundred was a list of New York society during the Gilded Age, a group that was led by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the "Mrs. Astor", for many years. After her death, her role in society was filled by three women: Mamie Fish , Theresa Fair Oelrichs , and Alva Belmont , [ 2 ] known as the "triumvirate" of American society.
Society pages and society reporting were prevalent in the New York daily newspapers from the winter of 1880 onward. [4] The previous year, Pearl Rivers had transplanted the notion to New Orleans, where she had begun the Society Bee, a local society column, on March 16, 1879. Again, the initial reaction was shock.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865. Its long-term editor and publisher was Lewis Gaylord Clark , whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine.
The presence of men like White, her great-great-grandfather, “overturns the commonly held notion that New York’s Black intellectual and cultural life began in Harlem” in the 1920s, Peterson ...
New York Social Diary is a website that publishes photographs of "the rich and powerful" socialites and a social calendar of events that they might attend. It is maintained by David Patrick Columbia, [ 1 ] who founded it in 2000.
The elder Hamilton lived through the 1834 anti-abolitionist riots in New York and was critical of pacifist abolitionist newspapers like The Liberator. [3]: 44 The two brothers held similar views, and they founded The Anglo-African Magazine, a monthly, in January 1859. [3]: 44 It had 32 pages and cost one dollar for a yearly subscription.
Helen Lawrenson (born Helen Strough Brown, October 1, 1907 – April 5, 1982) [1] was an American editor, writer and socialite who gained fame in the 1930s with her acerbic descriptions of New York society. She made friends with great ease, many among the rich and famous, notably author Clare Boothe Luce and statesman Bernard Baruch.