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[ 1 ] The Four Hundred was a list of New York society during the Gilded Age, a group that was led by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the "Mrs. Astor", for many years. After her death, her role in society was filled by three women: Mamie Fish, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, [ 2 ] known as the "triumvirate" of American society. [ 3 ]
Following Mrs. Astor's death, it reportedly took three women to fill her role in New York Society: Marion Graves Anthon Fish, the wife of Stuyvesant Fish, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, by then the wife of Oliver Belmont.
Sep 10, 2020 · She was Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Dahlgren, a young mother and widow at 32, and heiress to a Philadelphia banking fortune. The year was 1900. It was a Monday night when all New York society was in attendance, the Met’s Diamond Horseshoe, resplendent with the ladies’ diamonds and emeralds sparkling.
Jan 19, 2022 · A chronicler of her social set, author Elizabeth Wharton Drexel wrote two novels in her lifetime, King Lehr and the Gilded Age and Turn of the World, both of which offered intimate insights into the lives of the elite (TIME magazine said of the former: '[It] may confidently be opened as one of the most startling and scandalously intimate ...
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Hermann Oelrichs (June 8, 1850 – September 1, 1906) [1] was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.
Sep 18, 2013 · Her husband’s niece Blanch Oelrichs said she was “strongly addicted to society as a business”. Her work was calling cards and invitations, dinners and balls, gowns and jewels. She reached her apex as mistress of Rosecliff.
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Jan 31, 2022 · In 1940, she met Blanche Oelrichs, an actress, poet, and dilettante. Oelrichs went by the name Michael Strange—a nom de plume that she’d taken on in order to elicit from her editors a “fair...
