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Author/Creator:Kear, Lynn, author.
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Title:Lost in New Orleans : friendship, desire and self-destruction in four jazz age lives / Lynn Kear.
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ISBN:9781476689852
1476689857
9781476647524
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Publication:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
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Physical Description:viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Summary:"Katty Stewart, Elizabeth (Moosie), Walker Ellis and Walter Stauffer were socialites born in New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century. Among their ancestors were Confederate soldiers, plantation owners, self-made millionaires and even a U.S. President. This book tells the story of four flawed, socially connected people who used newspaper society columns to craft highly curated images of themselves. But the newspapers of the time did not include the more salacious, messy, complicated and secretive details of the four socialites' lives. This is also a social history of New Orleans during the Jazz Age, including descriptions of queer culture, the French Quarter, European travel, and life in the social circles of Kay Francis, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Waldo Peirce, Caresse and Harry Crosby, Gerald and Sara Murphy and many others. Full of humorous anecdotes, drama, romance and tragedy, this book is an insightful chronicle of a fascinating time in New Orleans' LGBTQ history"--
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Variant and related titles:Friendship, desire and self-destruction in four jazz age lives
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:Prologue: That Time a Movie Star Visited -- New Orleans to See Katty Stewart -- The Buckner House and the South -- Society Columns -- Katty and Moosie -- Baby Dances -- Let's Not and Say We Did -- Walker Mallam Ellis -- Walter Joseph Stauffer -- Walker and the French Quarter -- A Trip to Europe -- Debutantes -- 1924 -- A Surprise Marriage -- 1925 -- Oak Alley -- The Lost Generation -- 1927 -- Illusions -- Kay and Katty in Hollywood -- The Beginning of the End -- The Wedding -- The Marriage -- The Houseboat -- Restless -- Walter Stauffer and New Orleans -- 1940s -- Everything Ends.
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Subjects:Stewart, Katharine Eustis, 1903-1952.
Stauffer, Elizabeth White, 1902-1963.
Ellis, Walker Mallam, 1893-1948.
Socialites--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
Sexual minority culture--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
United States--History--1919-1933.
New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
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