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Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (pseudonym: Julien Gordon; July 19, 1848 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist. Because many of her books examined the American social world, she was known as the Edith Wharton of her day.




Family


Julia Grinnell Storrow was born in Paris, France, in 1848. She was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth Storrow of Boston and a grandniece of Washington Irving.




Career


She married Civil War veteran Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger, grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer, on April 21st, 1868 in Trinity Chapel in New York City. Her husband died in 1898, leaving her independently well off.
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.
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.




Selected works


A Diplomat's Diary (1890)
Vampires: Mademoiselle Réséda (1891)
A Successful Man (1891)
A Puritan Pagan (1891)
Marionettes (1892)
His Letters (1892)
Poppaea (1895)
A Wedding and Other Stories (1896)
Eat Not Thy Heart (1897)
Mrs. Clyde: The Story of a Social Career (1901)
The Wage of Character: A Social Study (1901)




References






External links


Works by or about Julien Gordon at the Internet Archive

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