Society as I Have Found It
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About This Book
“There is no power like the social power; it makes and unmakes.”In Society As I Have Found It, Ward McAllister—social arbiter of high society and friend to the powerful and wealthy Astor family—offers an insider’s memoir of the Gilded Age, when New York’s elite “Four Hundred” reigned supreme.This new edition of McAllister’s classic memoir the complete 1890 text as first published – an eye-witness account of New York’s high society “Four Hundred”, from the man who defined them.detailed footnotes explaining cultural references and language from the Gilded Age;period photographs, bringing the peo...
Chapters (380)
- Society As I Have Found It
- AUTHOR’S NOTE.
- CONTENTS.
- MY FAMILY.
- Society as I have Found It.
- CHAPTER I.
- LAW AND HOUSEKEEPING.
- CHAPTER II.
- INTRODUCTION TO LONDON SPORTS.
- CHAPTER III.
- A WINTER IN ITALY.
- CHAPTER IV.
- GERMANY AND THE ALPS.
- CHAPTER V.
- WINTER IN PAU.
- CHAPTER VI.
- HOME AGAIN.
- CHAPTER VII.
- MERRYMAKING IN THE SOUTH.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- LIFE AT NEWPORT.
- CHAPTER IX.
- SOCIETY’S LEADERS.
- CHAPTER X.
- DELIGHTS OF COUNTRY LIFE.
- CHAPTER XI.
- FASHIONABLE PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER XII.
- COTILLIONS IN DOORS AND OUT.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- AN ERA OF GREAT EXTRAVAGANCE.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- ON THE BOX SEAT AT NEWPORT.
- CHAPTER XV.
- SOCIAL UNITY.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- A GOLDEN AGE OF FEASTING.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- ENTERING SOCIETY.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- ENTERTAINING.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- MADEIRAS.
- CHAPTER XX.
- CHAMPAGNES AND OTHER WINES.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- DINNERS.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- COOKS AND CATERING.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- BALLS.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- FAMOUS NEWPORT BALLS.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- AN ERA OF EXTRAVAGANCE.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- WASHINGTON DINNERS AND NEW YORK BALLS.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- THE PRESENT FASHION IN STATIONERY.
- FORMS OF INVITATIONS USED BY MR. McALLISTER
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