Part II: The Midnight Band of Mercy “I suppose I am mad. For a woman to care nothing for her appearance or how she lives is a sure sign of madness. I have nothing in common with anything except animals, and them I love.”—Grace Georgia Devide, The New York World, December 31, 1893 “The Midnight […]
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1893: The Crazy New York Cat Ladies and the Murderous Midnight Band of Mercy, Part II
Posted: 2nd July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Caroline Ewen, Cat Stories, crazy cat ladies, Grace Devide, Nellie Bly, New York History, Sarah J. Edwards
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1890: The Crazy Cat Ladies and The Murderous Midnight Band of Mercy, Part I
Posted: 1st July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Barney Bowers, Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Grace Devide, New York History, Sarah J. Edwards, Washington Heights
Part I: The Society to Befriend Domestic Animals Like all crazy cat ladies or cat hoarders, Mrs. Sarah J. Edwards and Mrs. Grace Georgia Devide had good intentions when they opened a refuge for homeless cats in 1890. But something went terribly wrong, and a mission to provide shelter and food for friendless and maltreated […]
1871: Rosalie Goodman, the Crazy Cat Lady of New York’s Lower East Side
Posted: 5th April 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Crazy Cat Ladies, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Delancey Square, Lower East Side, New York History, Rosalie Goodman, Seward Park
Before there was a Seward Park on Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was a square block of old wooden houses and crumbling brick tenements where hundreds of immigrants and alley cats made their home.There once was a woman named Rosalie Goodman who lived in a dilapidated frame tenement house on […]
