
Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age—the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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In a grand house, money travelled through many hands…
Picture a Gilded Age household on an ordinary Thursday.
A frightened dollar princess, a baby who died on his first birthday, and the tombstone that finally explained her letters.
For a long time, one name in Alberta’s letters defeated me.
A new type of freedom
In the 19th century, a widow was expected to disappear into black crepe, floor-length veils and a year and a day of full mourning, her grief performed in public under the watchful eye of etiquette manuals and polite s...
In the Gilded Age, childhood had its own floor, staff and, quite often, its own rules.
At the bottom of the great staircase, life was conducted in public. There were callers to receive, dinners to attend, bills to pay, charities to support...
Long before film stars, red carpets and publicists, there was Sarah.
If Sarah Bernhardt had been born a century later, one suspects she would have broken the internet before breakfast.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Cultural historian & writer
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