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Writer, elder millennial in Canada.

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Galatea (1847) by Charles Jalabert

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love letters by AnaG (complete)

love letters | 40,360 words

Fandom: The Gilded Age

Ships: Bertha Russell/George Russell; multi (see below)

Summary: For decades, George and Bertha shared sweet letters waxing poetic about their dedication to one another. Until one year, the notes stopped, and Bertha grew tired of waiting for her husband to return to her.

Interconnected stories based on the letters George and Bertha sent to one another, from the year they met to the year they were apart.

Written for the Gilded Age Creator's Cotillion 2026.

Chapter index:

Chapter 1: wild roses and hothouse flowers | Prompt: The Gardens of Newport (young Bertha Russell/George Russell)

Chapter 2: all the things she said | Prompt: The Secret Affair (young Bertha Russell/George Russell)

Chapter 3: rumors | Prompt: Aboard the Yacht (Aurora Fane/Mr. Delancey)

Chapter 4: recalibration | Prompt: My Mind is Made Up (post-season 3 Bertha Russell/George Russell)

Chapter 5: exchange of desires | A Night at the Metropolitan (post-season 3 Bertha Russell/Alfred Merrick - sort of)

Chapter 6: new york's greatest love story | I Didn't Expect to See You Here (post-season 3 Bertha Russell/Enid Turner | Winterton - sort of)

Chapter 7: a thousand times over | A Journey West (post-season 3 Bertha Russell/George Russell)

artwork: La Sonate à Kreutzer by René-Cavier Prinet (1901)

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Bag

c. 1790-1910

American

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Mr Hayward, how would you like to dance with Miss Bennet?

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love letters by AnaG (2/7 "the secret affair")

love letters | 13,648 words (wip) | chapter 2/7

Fandom: The Gilded Age

Ship: Bertha Russell/George Russell

Summary: A series of loosely connected chapters that are based on the letters Bertha and George have written to each other, from the year they met to the year they parted.

Chapter 2: all the things she said / Day 2: The Secret Affair

In a flashback, a young George and Bertha are reacquainted and begin a secret romance.

In the present, Bertha pines after George who is away, recovering from his laudanum addiction.

Today is the greatest day of my life. You are the greatest love of my life. From here on, everything I do will be in your name, for us, for the life we build together.

artwork: "Girl Reading" by Edmund Tarbell (1909)

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love letters by AnaG

love letters | 6109 words | chapter 1/7

Fandom: The Gilded Age

Summary: A series of loosely connected chapters that are based on the letters Bertha and George have written to each other, from the year they met to the year they parted.

Chapter 1: wild roses and hothouse flowers / Day 1: The Gardens of Newport

Through his letters, she entered a fantasy world at night, alone in her dark room. She dreamt of him returning from Harvard and marrying her, about starting a family with him, about supporting him relentlessly in his work so that they might have a comfortable and secure life together. 

Having a husband who could earn money reliably for their family was her dream, her goal, everything she wanted. Their children would not need to work. Their daughters, if they had any, could marry good men without worrying that their background would offend said men, and their sons would learn the family business from George and work with him, eventually building a small empire…

And a husband as attractive and as intelligent and kind to her as George was… well, that was beyond her wildest dreams. 

In the back of her mind, however, she knew it would never become reality.

artwork: "The Love Letter" by Carl Herpfer (1880)

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~ Gustave Léonard De Jonghe, In Front of the Mirror (detail)

via koninklijk museum voor schone kunsten antwerpen

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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Vincent van Gogh

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I can excuse a lot of inaccuracies in other people's writing. But if there is something not completely historically correct in the fic that I don't even plan to post, backed up with scholarly research, I cannot continue to write.

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fixed the georgebertha scene

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berthaenid textposts

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THE GILDED AGE 1.02 | “Money Isn’t Everything”

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Please, make your way to the terrace and enjoy our magnificent display of illumination.

The Gilded Age 3.8- My Mind is Made Up

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Carrie Coon as BERTHA RUSSELL THE GILDED AGE (2022- )

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Hawk's Nest, 1917 by Daniel Garber (American, 1880--1958)

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Day Dress

c. 1885-1886

Goldstein Museum of Design