“There are only about four hundred people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.”

About Ward McAllister

Socialite • American

Samuel Ward McAllister was a prominent American socialite and self-proclaimed arbiter of New York society during the Gilded Age. He is best known for collaborating with Caroline Schermerhorn Astor to define the elite...