World's People

Julien Gordon (Julia Grinnell Storrow, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger)

New York: J.F. Taylor & Company, 1902.

Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Decorative green cloth stamped in green attributed to Evelyn W. Clark, signed at the base of the tree.

Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (pseudonym: Julien Gordon; July 19, 1848 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist.  Along with her husband, Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger (1844-1898), they were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred".  All her novels were set within society life in Gilded Age New York and Washington D.C..  As a prominent socialite who moved in the highest social circles, she was uniquely positioned to give an unparalleled view into that exclusive and otherwise inaccessible world. Adding further spice, like Edith Wharton, the characters she created were often easily recognizable as the real-life characters on whom they were based.