Start with high-confidence gilded age romance books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The New Girls
Beth Gutcheon
Secret Sisters
Joy Callaway
The Girl From the Savoy
Hazel Gaynor
A Certain Age
Beatriz Williams
An Heiress to Remember
Maya Rodale
The Gilded Heiress
Joanna Shupe
The Last Madam
Chris Wiltz, Christine Wiltz
Gramercy Park
Paula Cohen
The Scarlet Sisters
Myra MacPherson
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Emily Post
Laura Claridge
Strong Passions
Barbara Weisberg
All the Pretty Places
The Seamstress of New Orleans
Diane C. McPhail
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, Gemma Whelan
The Fifth Wheel
Olive Higgins Prouty
