![]() ![]() She started out a small town Pennsylvania girl before running off to New York to make it on Newspaper Row, which she did in spectacular fashion. Nellie Bly is one of those fascinating and delightful Gilded Age personalities-fearless, charming, and unstoppable. I also discovered that the Gilded Age was a golden age for independent, ambitious, boundary breaking real life heroines. ![]() But in researching the time period I discovered that the best stories weren’t just uptown in Fifth Avenue mansions-they were everywhere. Astor’s ballroom and dollar Princesses, which felt like an updated version of the Regency Era. ![]() My obsession with the Gilded Age began with romance novels-I wanted to set a series in old New York in the world of Mrs. In short, it’s an era that wants to be written about. And there were many, many larger than life personalities. There were strikes, protest parades and parties so outrageously decadent the hosts had to leave the country after-and a vibrant Press detailing all of it. The Gilded Age is famous for high society rivalries, for robber barons, suffragists and a clash of fortunes and tremendous poverty, all within the confines of one city. ![]()
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