Editing Jack London (section)

== ''The Crowd'' (literary group) ==
''The Crowd'' gathered at the restaurants (including Coppa's<ref name="sfchronicle/10609139">
* {{cite news |last1=Kamiya |first1=Gary |title=SF's first hipster cafe and its descent into ruin |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-first-hipster-cafe-and-its-descent-into-10609139.php |access-date=4 September 2023 |work=sfchronicle.com |date=November 12, 2016}}
* {{cite book |last1=Unna |first1=Warren |title=The Coppa Murals: A Pageant of Bohemian Life in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century |date=1952 |publisher=Book Club of California |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AffEGAAACAAJ |access-date=4 September 2023 |language=en}}
* {{cite web |title=Provincial Italian Cuisines: San Francisco Conserves Italian Heritage |url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Provincial_Italian_Cuisines:_San_Francisco_Conserves_Italian_Heritage |website=foundsf.org - FoundSF |access-date=4 September 2023}}</ref>) at the old [[Montgomery Block]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Coppa's famous walls |url=https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2015/10/29/coppas-famous-walls/ |website=Restaurant-ing through history |access-date=4 September 2023 |language=en |date=29 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="Boylan/Revolutionary-Lives-Ch1">{{cite book |last1=Boylan |first1=James R. |title=Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky and William English Walling |date=1998 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=1-55849-164-3 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/boylan-revolutionary.html |language=en |chapter=CHAPTER ONE "Miss Annie"}}</ref> and later was a:
<blockquote>Bohemian group that often spent its Sunday afternoons picnicking, reading each other's latest compositions, gossiping about each other's infidelities and frolicking beneath the cherry boughs in the hills of [[Piedmont, California|Piedmont]]

– Alex Kershaw, historian<ref name="paintingpiedmont/crowd">{{cite web |title=The Crowd |url=https://www.paintingpiedmont.com/crowd |website=Painting Piedmont |access-date=4 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

Formed after 1898, they met at [[Xavier Martinez]]'s home on Sundays, and at Jack London's home on Wednesdays. The group usually included [[George Sterling]] (poet) and his wife Caroline "Carrie" E. (née Rand) Sterling, [[Anna Strunsky]],<ref>Pratt, Norma Fain  [http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/walling-anna-strunsky "Anna Strunsky Walling, 1879–1964."], in ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. July 4, 2010.</ref> [[Herman Whitaker]], [[Ambrose Bierce]], Richard Partington and his wife Blanche, Joseph Noel (dramatist, novelist and journalist),<ref name="archives.nypl/21404">{{cite web |title=Joseph Noel papers |url=https://archives.nypl.org/the/21404 |website=archives.nypl.org |access-date=4 September 2023}}</ref><ref name="nytimes/1946/08/08/joseph-noel-65">{{cite news |title=JOSEPH NOEL, 65, ONCE PLAYWRIGHT; Ex-Newspaper Man and Author Dies—Wrote Book About Jack London and Ambrose Bierce |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/08/archives/joseph-noel-65-once-playwright-exnewspaper-man-and-author-dieswrote.html |access-date=4 September 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=8 August 1946}}</ref> [[Joaquin Miller]], [[Arnold Genthe]] and the hosts, Jack London and his wife, Bessie Maddern London, and Xavier Martinez and his wife, [[Elsie Whitaker Martinez]].