An audio postcard about colorful Victorian homes from Susan's vacation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wrap up our very first season with some frequently asked questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before she was Winston's mother, Jennie Jerome Churchill was a New York heiress who married into the British aristocracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not everyone in the Gilded Age had a wardrobe of Worth dresses and the luxury of boredom; an army of servants were required behind the scenes to ensure the Dollar Princesses’ success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Call them whatever you want; Gilded Age Heiresses, Dollar Princesses, Buccaneers– they all point to the same type of woman. Spanning about a twenty year time period wealthy American ladies of marrying age headed across the pond to snag the ultimate in opulent accessories: a noble title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We recap and compare fact to fiction in 1993's movie adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Schermerhorn Astor was the absolute boss of New York society for many years. Do not cross her, or you will be left out in the cold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helen Keller called her "Teacher" but we call her remarkable and accomplished! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, public speaker, friend, daughter, world traveler, and a woman who may have had physical disabilities, but was not disabled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Upper middle class Victorian New England: Polite conversations, genteel ladies, dapper gentlemen, beautiful architecture, and a 32 year old spinster taking a hatchet to her parents. Or did she? The woman that we discuss in this episode was propelled into the center of a media frenzy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices