\"American Novelist\" Julia Cruger Hand Signed 3X2.5 Card For Sale

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\"American Novelist\" Julia Cruger Hand Signed 3X2.5 Card:
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Up for sale "American Novelist" Julia Cruger Hand Signed 3X5 Index Card. This item is also signed by the author using her alias "Julien Gordon"

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Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (c.

1850 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Julien

Gordon. Because many of her books examined the American social world, she

was known as the Edith Wharton of her day. Born Julia Grinnell Storrow in Paris, France, she was the

daughter of Thomas Wentworth Storrow of Boston[1] and a grandniece of Washington

Irving. She married Civil War veteran Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger, grandson of

Stephen Van

Rensselaer, who died in 1898, leaving her independently well off.

She married broker Wade Chance in 1908; they separated after a year and were

divorced in 1916. Cruger, who spoke French fluently, then moved to Paris for

several years, returning to New York not long before her death. In 1892, Cruger and her husband were

included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an

index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently, 400 was

the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's

ballroom. Her first book was A Diplomat's Diary (1890); it and the next

three novels all appeared first in serial form. Many of her novels closely

examined the social world of New York and Washington, D.C., and she was known

as the Edith Wharton of her day.

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