Wealth and Celebrity in Boston’s Gilded Age: A Talk with STEPHEN MOSKEY

Until recently, history remembered Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (1876-1948) as the wife of wealthy Bostonian Larz Kilgour Anderson (1866-1937). Their Brookline estate is now Larz Anderson Park. However, the public perception of Mrs. Anderson as an heiress and socialite was shattered in April 2016 with the publication of STEPHEN MOSKEY’s Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age, a new account of the couple’s extraordinary lives.

The Boston Athenaeum is pleased to welcome STEPHEN MOSKEY for a midday discussion of this fascinating piece of Boston history.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.