Gildedage Stories

Everyone knew the tragic story of the Crawley family. How the barely new Countess of Grantham disappeared from Downton Abbey along with their newborn son and heir. They...

1880s, New York. Élisabeth and Madeleine D'Amour are fresh to New York thanks to their railroad tycoon father. Élisabeth yearns to return to France because there is noth...

This is a chapter from a novel I'm working on called "Cultbreakers," wherein our heroine is tasked by the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans to find her way into an i...

He moved to Edenton looking to get away from the distractions of city life. He found just the opposite in Sullivan House. Sitting high atop a nearby mountainside, the...

This is the story of two servants'shenanigans, and the tales they would hear behind closed doors.

In this first book of a trilogy, William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father invests in land and builds a railroad...

John Rockefeller x Andrew Carnegie x JP Morgan -- The one where capitalists are gay. Carnegie confronts Rockefeller's attack on his steel companies, and it turns into a...

Magic pulls you into its long-nailed clutch and doesn't let go. Jade Spade is a girl living in Brooklyn, New York. Her day turns upside down one summer night when being...

Touted as the safest, largest, most luxurious ship in the world, the Titanic is a beacon of hope on both sides of the Atlantic. The ship is the culmination of humanity's...

© Laurel London, The 19th Century. 2023 This e-book is a compendium - giving you an understanding of the 19th century from a British perspective, and through the Western...

In an America embroiled in the all-encompassing inequities of the Gilded Age, with industrialists making their riches while the workers fight for their freedoms, a teena...

The Yellow-Eyed Demon has Sam in his crosshairs. Is a certain Greek goddess the solution or will she place everyone's lives in jeopardy? November 2006. Crossed Lines sto...

A god of time just got knocked down a peg. Cora is a billion year-old god that has devoted her existence into memorizing the timeline, and more importantly fixing it. Wh...

A young and impressionable night clerk at an luxe hotel gets mixed up with a criminal crowd in 1940s Denver.

The White City is the exciting conclusion to The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone! Molly has escaped the destruction of her small town of Laurentide, and she and V...

Set in the 1870s and 1880s, AG, EL is about four wealthy American girls and their socially ambitious families being snubbed by polite society for being new money. The gi...

There is nothing wrong with New York debutante Bertille Dubon's life. She has a great family-one of the most respected In New York-interesting friends, and all the time...

A short story about a rich society maiden during the Gilded Age who is jaded by her lavish lifestyle until she makes a decision that brings back the spark in her marriag...

Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York's ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trou...

An introductory second-person POV story featuring you, the protagonist, and an unassuming lady whose sordid past seems to be not that far behind her. I'd like to make t...