Kentucky’s Own Queen of New York’s Bohemia

Explore how Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) evolved from an impoverished Kentuckian theologian’s daughter into a restless Kansan housewife and then a prolific New York writer, reformer, and publisher. In her bimonthly magazine The East Side, Zoe (as everyone called her) set out “to fight for the poor with my pen.” Her fellow Manhattan bohemians—writers, filmmakers, performers, politicians—joined an intentionally disorganized organization that she founded, the Ragged Edge Klub, and appointed her Queen of Bohemia. The last issue of The East Side described her recent dream that she would soon die, and after that accurate premonition made headlines in hundreds of newspapers nationwide, she fell into obscurity, until now.

You may also like the following events from The Filson Historical Society:

• Next Sunday, 14th September, 01:00 pm, 31st Annual House Tour in Louisville
• This month, 19th September, 05:00 pm, Exhibit Opening – Black Homecoming: Kentucky Kinship in Photography in Louisville
• This month, 25th September, 06:00 pm, The Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series – Red Scare: McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America in Louisville

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