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Matriarchs of society such as Mrs Caroline Backhouse Astor (pictured played by Donna Murphy in The Gilded Age) employed the rules of calling cards to maintain the social order. (Alison Rosa Cohen © 2021 Heyday Productions, LLC and Universal Television LLC)

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The Great Tea Race of 1866

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