Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen

by Bonnie Yochelson

Explore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York's leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, she was this and much more.

Alice Austen (1866-1952) lived at Clear Comfort, her grandparent's Victorian cottage on Staten Island, which is now a National Historic Landmark. As a teenager, she devoted herself to photography, recording what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531509509
• ISBN13: 9781531509507
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages