Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age—the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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The Seasonal Boredom Problem of the Gilded Age Elite
When time itself had a social calendar.
There is a particular kind of discomfort that arrives when every hour has already been assigned a purpose. In the Gilded Age, this was not unusual. For the elite, life was not simply busy or quiet, b...
The American Heiress Who Wrote to a Nun
Three weeks before the perfect Gilded Age marriage, Alberta Sturges wrote a letter that gives the whole game away.
Three weeks before she became a countess-in-waiting, Alberta Sturges sat down at her desk at 12 Bruton Street, Berkeley Squa...
America’s First Self-Made Female Millionaire? Separating Myth from Reality
Let’s meet the self-made Queen of the hair-care scene.
Last month, in More Than Heiresses: The Women Who Transformed Their Own Fortunes, we briefly met one extraordinary woman whose story stood apart from even the most determined Gilded Ag...
More Than Heiresses: The Women Who Transformed Their Own Fortunes
The women who made money, not just marriages.
When we think of the Gilded Age, we tend to picture fortunes being inherited rather than earned.
Watch: What did Gilded Age women know about sex?
Hint: surprisingly little
Beneath the corsets and the finishing-school polish lay a striking silence: a young heiress might speak three languages yet be unable to name a single part of her own body, and that was very much the point. In thi...
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Historian of the Gilded Age and its Gilded Heiresses and, somewhat unexpectedly, I'm now the 12th Countess of Sandwich. Exploring heritage and high society from both sides of the pond. Master's with Distinction in English Country House Studies.
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