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Not at Home, Eastman Johnson, ca. 1873, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

Size: 26 7/16 x 22 5/16 in. (67.1 x 56.7 cm) frame: 42 7/16 x 38 5/16 x 5 ½ in. (107.8 x 97.3 x 14 cm) Medium: Oil on laminated paperboard

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/496

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the intense shippability of marian brook and peggy scott in the gilded age's first episode 💞

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So lovely to see everyone in their end of season finery.

THE GILDED AGE (2022- ) ❖ 3x08 "My Mind Is Made Up"

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honestly, my sympathies to turner, who committed to the very bold social climbing play of getting into her sleeping boss's bed fully naked in the ONLY nude scene on the series (not that turner could know that, but i feel like somehow ...... you could sense it through the fourth wall. somehow, she knew, on a cosmic level), only to be so totally 100% rebuffed. that dude thought for a second that she was bertha and as soon as he realized she wasn't, it was a one-way ticket to rejection city. like. dang. the fact that she bounced back after that scene is a testament to her swagger.

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THE GILDED AGE SEASON 3

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"Nobs" are the old money people. The establishment.

"Swells" are the new money people. They create themselves.

From: "Society as I Have Found it", Ward McAllister, January 1890, Cassell Publishing Company

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Aunt Agnes runs into Bannister at the Mamma Mia! premiere.

Bannister and Mrs. Bauer at the Mamma Mia! premiere.

Winter Garden Theatre | NYC | August 14, 2025

🎥 @kingofbundy IG, 📷 @keatonkildebell X, Sergio Villarini for broadway.com, shutterstock.com

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the dance [the gilded age, oscar van rhijn, 1375 words]

A coda/missing scene for 3.08. The ball was, of course, very lovely, very charming, quite spectacular. Oscar was enjoying himself, he was sure, immensely; that he couldn't quite feel it was only a trick of something, the light, or his heart, or the champagne.

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My favorite costumes in THE GILDED AGE (2022- ) | 3x08 "My Mind Is Made Up"

Costume Design: Kasia Walicka-Maimone

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PUMPKIN & OSCAR van RHIJN

THE GILDED AGE (2022-) ❖ 3x08 "My Mind Is Made Up"

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ALOHA (THE BLACK VICTORIANS, 1898)

Born in Brooklyn, Carlotta Stewart (1881-1952) emigrated to Hawaii where she trained as a teacher and became principal of a multiracial school in 1909.

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Studio in the rue de Furstenberg painted by Frederic Bazille (1841 - 1870)

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Is this because of the shooting? Maybe. It's made me examine my life. And I don't like everything I see.

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BTS with the van Rhijn women

📷 @kelliohara IG

TGA 03x08 My Mind is Made Up

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'seascape with open sky,' pastel on gray wove paper mounted on thin paperboard; eugene boudin, french, 1860.

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I guess Oscar is sort of out of his Lily Bart era now, which would generally be a "good for him" kind of situation, except now he's got so many other issues! House of Mirth except that it's Lawrence Seldon who dies after Lily realizes she should've chosen him.

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so glad to see you're a fan of enid and oscar! two of the best characters played by such good actors omg but I just had the saddest thought - when the van turnerton wedding happens (hopefully on-screen!) enid won't have anyone to walk her down the aisle

like idk if it was like a MUST for this to happen in the gilded age - probably, bc it was like 'giving the bride away' or whatever but it's in these moments I feel so sorry for enid. For reasons unknown she literally has no one. Like we don't hear of/see any family, friends, etc. - but I think it's partly because, as the fabulous kelley curran has said, that when she was a servant she didn't necessarily want to make friends bc she saw them as beneath her in a way? and now she's in society it's become hard for her to make genuine connection and find community? which is also why I love her and oscar but it's also lowkey one of the most tragic parts of the show imo.

love your work btw let's go disaster edith wharton heroines <3

I've been poking around in period etiquette guides for indications of what the rules around widows getting remarried were, in terms of how the wedding would be set up--it sounds like if she married in a church a close male relative might still give her away, but also the guides I'm looking at are emphasizing the popularity of weddings at home, not just for widows and widowers but for first marriages, too. That would obviate the need for someone to walk her down the aisle, and I think it would be sort of neat to see a different style of wedding, especially considering that we seem to be set up for at least two and, if Larry and Marian get themselves together, possibly even three weddings next season.

Which isn't really directly related to your lovely ask! But I would love to see their wedding, too, in whatever form, and I hope they don't skip over it (though I'm looking forward to them being in their weirdo marrieds era). Or, of course, they may not end up married at all--that doesn't seem to be where we're headed, but I feel like I don't have a good grasp of where they want to go with this yet.

Disaster Edith Wharton heroines forever 💖