Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Friendship, desire and self-destruction in four jazz age lives
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.