HeyJaredGilded Heiresses
Exploring the real lives of American heiresses in the Gilded Age—the women who inspired HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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Who Handled the Finances in a Gilded Age Household? (opens the original)
The Most Gilded Summer of an American Heiress’s Life Carried Grief (opens the original)
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For a long time, one name in Alberta’s letters defeated me.She keeps returning to a “Billy”, and to a grief she never really explains, because she is writing to her husband George, and he already knows. When I first read these letters a few years ago I could not have told you who Billy was and it nagged at me for months!The answer was waiting in a churchyard.Hinchingbrooke House, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, was our family’s original ancestral seat, and generations of Montagus lie a short
Watch: Widowhood in the Gilded Age (opens the original)
Inside the Gilded Age Nursery (opens the original)
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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, and there was an endless procession of footmen attempting to look as though they had not heard anything at all.But upstairs was another world entirely.For the children of wealthy Victorian and Gilded Age families, the nursery was not simply a room with a cot in the corner. Oh no; it was a small domestic kingdom, which was part bedroom, part cla
Sarah Bernhardt: The Woman Who Invented Celebrity (opens the original)
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