By Veronica Wells ·Updated February 15, 2022
In the new HBO series The Gilded Age we watch the beginnings of a platonic relationship between two women, living in the United States in the late 1800s. Marian Brook, a white woman from a well-to-do family in Manhattan and Peggy Scott, a Black woman whose family belongs to the Black elite of Brooklyn.
The women meet one another after Peggy, played by actress microaggressions modern
