Description
Book Synopsis Katty Stewart, Elizabeth (Moosie) White, 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 their 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 histor
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue: That Time a Movie Star Visited New Orleans to See Katty Stewart
- 1. The Buckner House and the South
- 2. Society Columns
- 3. Katty and Moosie
- 4 Baby Dances
- 5. Let's Not and Say We Did
- 6. Walker Mallam Ellis
- 7. Walter Joseph Stauffer
- 8. Walker and the French Quarter
- 9. A Trip to Europe
- 10. Debutantes
- 11. 1924
- 12. A Surprise Marriage
- 13. 1925
- 14. Oak Alley
- 15. The Lost Generation
- 16. 1927
- 17. Illusions
- 18. Kay and Katty in Hollywood
- 19. The Beginning of the End
- 20. The Wedding
- 21. The Marriage
- 22. The Houseboat
- 23. Restless
- 24. Walter Stauffer and New Orleans
- 25. 1940s
- 26. Everything Ends
- 27. The End
- Epilogue
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
