Some of The Gilded Age 's fictional characters, like the van Rhijn-Brook and Russell families, play a larger role in the series and have more active sway in social settings, landing them above Mamie.

Louisa Jacobson and Denee Benton in “The Gilded Age” (Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO) But the bustle is fairly new to TV audiences. At least, we haven’t seen it on such lavish and continual display ...

The new HBO series “The Gilded Age” hails from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, and much like that hit period series, this one features a lot of characters.

The Gilded Age, HBO’s period drama following from Downton Abbey ’s Julian Fellowes, returns for a third season of rich people behaving badly on June 22. The title refers to the real historical ...

“The Gilded Age,” however, is the first to inject its story with real historical figures whose actions drive the narrative in huge ways. Notably, it makes a real-life person from 19th century ...

One of the real life grand dames of Palm Beach, Florida is the inspiration for a key character in HBO's "The Gilded Age" Season 3 — a character whose story is about to take a major turn.

He was forced to repaint the strap. In The Gilded Age, the Sargent character paints Gladys’ portrait. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper An illustration of suffragist Frances E. W. Harper, circa 1872.