My copy of Presidents and Pies, by Isabel Anderson (1920) While I was writing my biography of Larz and Isabel Anderson, I discovered hundreds of “rabbit holes” that, had I decided to go down into, could have added years to the time it took to write it. (Rabbit holes have been described by one New Yorker writer as something […]
February 2024
Some of my favorite Gilded Age biographies | The Gilded Age in America
By Skip Moskey People often ask me what books I’ve most enjoyed reading about the Gilded Age. Here are three favorites from my biography shelf. Click on the book image for more information; these are all available as very low-cost used copies on Amazon.com. Happy reading! Henry James: A Life, by Leon Edel. This […]
Picturing a Bygone Era | The Gilded Age in America
Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age by Stephen T. (Skip) Moskey has been in development since January 2010. Now, after almost six years of research, writing, and editing, the book is with its publisher, iUniverse LLC of Bloomington, Indiana. You can view a short book trailer by Clicking Here. One of the key […]
Gardens & Horticulture | The Gilded Age in America | Page 5
Larz and Isabel Anderson were an elegant Gilded Age couple with two impressive homes: Anderson House in Washington, D.C., and Weld, their summer estate in Brookline, just outside of Boston, Mass. Weld was more than a fascinating Gilded Age mansion filled with treasures from around the world, however. It was also a working “gentleman’s farm” […]
Travel & Entertainment | The Gilded Age in America | Page 4
A Tudor Revival house, probably circa 1910, with a river stone ground floor exterior, on South Highland Street in West Hartford, Conn. I grew up in a small Cape Cod across the street from this house. By Skip Moskey I grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, during the 1960s. We lived in an area of […]
skipmoskey | The Gilded Age in America | Page 4
By Skip Moskey Ambassador and Mrs. Larz Anderson, 1924, by Philip de László. The Andersons were among Washington’s most glamorous couples. Everything about them was glamorous: their homes, their clothing, their art, and their style. (Photo by Skip Moskey.) In Part 1 of this two-part series, I reviewed the relationship between the architectural form and […]
Educating Competent, Responsible and Generous-minded Women in 1895 | The Gilded Age in America
One hundred and twenty years ago this month, in June 1895, Isabel Weld Perkins graduated from Miss Winsor’s School in Boston, now called The Winsor School. She was in the school’s first graduating class of young Boston women prepared by Mary Pickard Winsor for a life in society and the world at large. During the earliest years, […]
A Visit with the Pope | The Gilded Age in America
In the fall of 1898, a year and a half after their marriage, Larz and Isabel Anderson took a trip of several months to India by way of Europe and the Suez Canal. Along the way, they stopped to visit old friends in Rome, where Larz had served as first secretary of the American Embassy […]