Gay Nineties - Citizendia

Gay Nineties is an American term that refers to the decade of the 1890s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that

The decade was a period of extremely exceptional economic expansion, and, in particular, of rapid wealth gains in New York City and Boston. The City of New York The American empire of trade was at one of its zeniths, and cities were growing rapidly. While the same decade saw an explosion of immigration to the United States from less economically prosperous lands, and consequently no gaiety for the working classes, it was a period of vast wealth for a newly emergent "society set". American immigration ( emigration to the United States of America) refers to the movement of non-residents to the United States. American immigration ( emigration to the United States of America) refers to the movement of non-residents to the United States. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types The railroads, the agricultural depression of the Southern United States, and the dominance of the United States in South American markets and the Caribbean meant that industrialists of New England were doing very well. The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the

The term itself began to be used in the 1920s and is believed to have been created by the artist Richard V. Culter, who first released a series of drawings in Life magazine entitled "the Gay Nineties" and later published a book of drawings with the same name. The high life of the "old money" families was well documented in the novels of, for example, Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( January 24 1862 &ndash August 11 1937) was an American Novelist, Short story Writer

It was also the name of a nostalgic radio program in the 1930s, hosted by a prominent composer of popular songs of the 1890s, Joe Howard.

The phrase has nothing to do with the term "gay" to refer to homosexuality, a usage that long postdates the phrase.

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