Episode Six The Trailblazer

Edith Wharton, the American Gilded-Age writer, born into opulence, often “wrote what she knew”. And “who” Edith knew were millionaires - corporate titans who traveled the world and who’d never get on their knees to scrub a toilet bowl all around its rim.

Edith also knew about, and wrote about, living within an emotionally cold, sexless marriage (a theme underscoring her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Age of Innocence”).

And Edith knew about affairs; her lust-filled poem “Terminus” written by her beneath warm crumpled sheets, the morning-after she experienced shenanigans with a well-known cad.