Gilded Age Tea & Talk Series at Staatsburgh: "Anne Morgan: A More Worthy Gilded Age Heroine"

Enjoy tea and scones in Staatsburgh’s formal dining room while listening to talks on Gilded Age history. While a fan of period dramas like "Downton Abbey" and "The Gilded Age," historian and best-selling author Alexis Coe has made a case for inclusion of a more consequential heroine from the period, modelled on Anne Morgan, the daughter of J.P. Morgan, who used her wealth and social clout to effect progressive change for labor and women’s rights, among other causes. Building on her recent Town & Country article on Morgan, Coe describes how Morgan chose substantive activism over the leisure of élite society in an age when American women’s roles were undergoing transformation.

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