This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in Manhattan who called themselves “the Lads of Kilkenny.” The
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in Manhattan who called themselves “the Lads of Kilkenny.” The
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