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And here's your 30-second summary.

A privileged woman born into a privileged family and a privileged society.

Sets out to make her life's work maintaining and controlling those standards,

keeping out anyone who she deemed unworthy by crowning herself queen,

and attempting to establish a purge of worthies.

The End

Let's just drop her into history.

In 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.

Yellowstone becomes our first national park.

Victoria Woodhall becomes the first woman nominated for U.S. President.

She does not win.

Ulysses S. Grant, however, is reelected President.

Calvin Coolidge and LLBeane were both born that year.

And in 1872, the first patriarchal ball was held,

cementing Caroline Webster Skirmohorn as the gatekeeper of New York High Society in the Guilded Age.

Let's talk about the Mrs. Aster, Caroline Webster Skirmohorn.

Now, there is some discussion out there about the correct pronunciation of Skirmohorn.

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