The Gilded Age

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

• new york city
• period drama
• high society
• financier
• spinsters
• costume drama
• upstairs downstairs
• 19th century
• class system
• railroad builder
• social and industrial development
• new money
• awestruck
• old money
• new york city history
• american gilded age
• african american progress