Wellfleet Public Library

Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn will explore the legacy of Gilded Age author and reformer Zoe Anderson Norris. Writer and publisher of the bimonthly magazine The East Side, Norris focused on New York's immigrants and outcasts in dire straits. She sometimes worked undercover to expose issues that still resonate in today's society. A Kentucky-born longtime Manhattanite, known as a Queen of Bohemia, Norris also founded the Ragged Edge Klub, which met for weekly dinners combining activism and dancing. She handed out aristocratic titles to Ragged Edgers, such as Lady Betty Rogers of the Bronx and Baron Bernhardt of Hoboken. A few days after completing the last issue of The East Side, which described her recent dream that she would die soon, she suffered fatal heart failure_and her prediction made headlines in newspapers nationwide.

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