Sunday Cosmopolitans

Intimate Friends & Brilliant Minds from Bygone New York On Sunday evenings from 1850 to 1871, the poets Alice and Phoebe Cary host New Yorks choicest, most cosmopolitan literary salon--the first American bluestocking of its kind. The character-driven plot follows the lives of the energetic sisters in their rise to success. It is a portrait of intellectual, independent women, i.e. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Louise Booth, Fanny Fern and others, who challenge laws and mindsets, breaking the glass ceiling of their day. Their intimate story parallels the historic deeds and events involving not only the women, but their extraordinary group of close men friends, including Horace Greeley, P.T. Barnum, Bayard Taylor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Horace Greeley called Phoebe the wittiest woman in America, and Edgar Allan Poe described Alices poem, Pictures of Memory, one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language. Before, during, and after the Civil War, abolition, suffrage, religion, politics, and social reform are heated issues. There is adventure, discovery, and financial chaos. In the ambiance of Alice and Phoebes cozy home on 20th Street, philosophy, politics, and literature mingle with fortune, rank, and wit. America comes into its own in literature and New York takes on world prominence.
About the Author: Lynn Clark Dorr has a versatile professional career as a feature writer-turned-novelist, public relations executive, and published author. She was an on-air broadcaster and corporate spokesperson with a background in journalism, fashion, and design. Early on in her career she wrote a best-selling book, How to Enjoy Life Between12 and 20. That came as the result of Lynn Clarks expertise, and guidance of hundreds of Los Angeles teenage girls in their personal grooming, social skills, and self-confidence. Later, in the City of Philadelphia during a civil rights crisis in1968, Lynn Clark successfully created and administered the city-wide Model-Teen Program. It included 8,000 teenage girls of all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds taught at the grassroots level. For that record-breaking achievement she received a presidential award. A painstakingly accurate researcher with a passion to study the lives and careers of successful business women in American history, it took Lynn twelve years to complete her second book. Sunday Cosmopolitans, Intimate Friends & Brilliant Minds from Bygone New York is a captivating story about what life was like in the mid-nineteenth century, and friendships of early motivators in the American Womens Movement.