L ace up your corsets, The Gilded Age is back. The long-awaited third season of HBO's sumptuous period drama returns with all the sharp dialogue, opulent gowns, and high-society i

The Gilded Age” has always been influenced by the work of Edith Wharton. Both the novelist’s oeuvre and the HBO drama are set among the upper echelons of New York society in the late 19th century, documenting frictions both large (the rise of a new industrial elite) and small (imperceptible breaches of etiquette).