046: The Gilded Age: Mrs. Astor and Her 400, Social Etiquette, and What Makes an American Dollar Princess

It's a History Podcast · Apr 30, 2025 · 21m

Hello! Welcome to another episode of Its a History Podcast. In todays episode we kick off the patent pending "Guilded Age Summer". Todays episode lays some ground work for what society was like for those in the upper crest of society. The ladies we will talk about in the future would have grown up in this climate and it most definetly shaped how they grew up and lived their lives.

Sources of today's episode include The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy by Anne De Courcy

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