TheGildedAge was most likely inspired by this real-life socialite rivalry
, Mrs. Russell—played by Carrie Coon—is dead set on one goal: becoming accepted by New York society. It’s no easy feat. Russell, you see, has heaps of money, but the new kind. This does little to impress the old guard of New York City, who takes their orders from de facto queen Mrs. Astor. And Mrs. Astor prefers the company of the old guard families, who have held the top powerful positions in the city since the American revolution.
Again and again, Mrs. Russell is snubbed. She throws a party that almost no one attends. She is not invited to sit on the boards of the fashionable charities. And when she offers up her grand ballroom—for free—for an event, she is turned down for a far inferior venue requiring payment. At one point, when leaving her calling card at the Mrs. Astor’s mansion, the societal matriarch tosses it into the fire.
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