
Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age—the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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It’s no big secret that the Gilded Age heiresses loved gowns.
From the stately mansions of Newport to Fifth Avenue salons, women of the upper echelons of society wore their wealth on their sleeves, literally. But they weren’t simply flaunt...
comfort without security
On the surface, being a mistress in the Gilded Age could look like a charmed life: jewellery, property, travel, and the protection of a powerful man. But beneath that glittering surface lay something far less stabl...
How Alberta Sturges, the American dollar princess who became Countess of Sandwich, turned a vast and freezing English house into a home, in her own words.
When an American heiress marries into an English family that comes with a house the...
The choreography nobody talks about.
At a Gilded Age ball, nothing was accidental. Not the order of arrival or the placement of the chairs or the angle of a glance across the room…
Oysters, champagne and the art of eating like the very rich.
In the Gilded Age, food was never just food. It was social signalling…a performance of refinement, and a piece of choreography as tightly rehearsed as any ballroom quadrille. Wha...
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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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