It’s ball season! Time to wear your finest, certainly the time to dress to impress and call the carriage for your visit to the Gilded Age’s greatest party — the ball. Balls were perhaps the most lavish entertainment one could attend in the Gilded Age — from Mrs. Astor’s annual Opera Ball for around 400 to smaller affairs for 200… Continue reading Episode #70: Having a Ball: The Gilded Age’s Most Outrageous Parties (encore)
Topic: Notable Figures
Episode #67: Simon Jones (Bannister on HBO’s “The Gilded Age”)
Join The Gilded Gentleman for a truly unique and special conversation with actor Simon Jones whose distinguished career has included roles in film such as his recent appearance as King George V in “Downton Abbey”, on stage on both Broadway and the West End, and on television in his current role as Bannister on HBO’s “The Gilded Age“. … Continue reading Episode #67: Simon Jones (Bannister on HBO’s “The Gilded Age”)
Episode #66: Inside Newport: Objects and Observations with Ulysses Dietz
Join The Gilded Gentleman and curator and historian Ulysses Dietz for a unique, in-depth look at the inside world of Newport in the GIdled Age. Ulysses Dietz, noted curator, author and historian is the great-great grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant. In this unique and very special show, Ulysses takes us behind the doors of several of Newport’s great mansions to… Continue reading Episode #66: Inside Newport: Objects and Observations with Ulysses Dietz
Episode #64: Jay Gould at Home: Life at Lyndhurst Mansion
Financier Jay Gould was one of the most famous and infamous of the Gilded Age robber barons. He was ruthless in his business dealings, tangled with the Vanderbilt for control of the railroads and fought battle after battle on Wall Street. Gould sought respite from New York City with his family at his country home, Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, a rolling estate where… Continue reading Episode #64: Jay Gould at Home: Life at Lyndhurst Mansion
Episode #63: The Gilded Age Cookbook: A Conversation with author Becky Diamond
Join author Becky Diamond and Carl for a true Gilded Age feast! Carl and Becky enjoy a hearty and delicious conversation on all aspects of dining during this opulent period including what more modest home cooks were whipping up in their newly outfitted kitchens. The Gilded Age was a period of rapid industrialization and innovation – and that was abundantly… Continue reading Episode #63: The Gilded Age Cookbook: A Conversation with author Becky Diamond
Episode #62: Black Gotham: Origins of Gilded Age New York’s Black Elite
Esteemed author and scholar, Dr. Carla Peterson joins The Gilded Gentleman to share her research and perspective on the growth and development of the prosperous black professional class throughout the nineteenth century up to the Gilded Age. Dr. Peterson’s work revealed a fascinating story that had up til then barely been told. One of the most fascinating storylines… Continue reading Episode #62: Black Gotham: Origins of Gilded Age New York’s Black Elite
Episode #57: The ‘Real’ Buccaneers: Gilded Age Million Dollar Princesses
This episode takes a look at how and why a large number of young American women of the Gilded Age sought marriages among the European nobility. Many of these marriages were much more business deals than love affairs although some did in fact produce happy unions. Join The Gilded Gentleman as we delve into the world… Continue reading Episode #57: The ‘Real’ Buccaneers: Gilded Age Million Dollar Princesses
Episode #56: Venetian Days: Henry James and Friends on the Grand Canal
A look at Venice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a view into a unique community of artists and writers that came to be known as the “Barbaro Circle” and which included the great American-born novelist Henry James. Venice by the end of the 19th century had lost much of the glory it once had known.… Continue reading Episode #56: Venetian Days: Henry James and Friends on the Grand Canal
Episode #50: Whitman and Wilde Part 2: Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882
In this second part of our special celebration of this month of Pride, The Gilded Gentleman moves the story ahead to the height of the Gilded Age and the arrival in New York of another brilliant and talented poet and writer, Oscar Wilde. When Oscar Wilde arrived in New York in January of 1882, one of his most important intentions… Continue reading Episode #50: Whitman and Wilde Part 2: Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882
Episode #49: Whitman and Wilde Part 1: Walt Whitman in New York, 1855
In celebration of this month of Pride, this two-part show takes a look at two revolutionary writers, Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, a surprising meeting they actually had, the times in which they lived and the city of New York and how it inspired them to move onto great fame and celebrity. The New York world the Walt Whitman knew… Continue reading Episode #49: Whitman and Wilde Part 1: Walt Whitman in New York, 1855