The catty and outrageously wealthy inspirations for HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’ were even more outlandish than their fictional counterparts.
Last year, audiences were introduced to Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age, a grand, guilty pleasure which chronicles the colourful lives of New York’s upper crust during the 1880s. Set amidst a rapidly changing social and industrial landscape, the story is centred around an epic old-money-versus-new-money feud between Mrs Bertha Russell , the nouveau-riche wife of a controversial railroad tycoon, and Mrs Caroline Schermerhorn Astor , the de facto queen bee of the city’s elite.
Years later in 1906, Nesbit’s husband, Harry Thaw, shot White to death while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, which the architect also designed. The legal proceedings became known as the “trial of the century”, though Thaw was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity. T Thomas Fortune Peggy’s editor, T Thomas Fortune , was, indeed, a radical real-life journalist, publisher, and civil rights leader with an inspiring story.
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