The Gilded Age: Peggy's Secret & Why She Needs A Lawyer
Warning: SPOILERS for The Gilded Age Episode 5 — «Charity Has Two Functions»
Peggy Scott (Denée Benton) has been harboring a secret in The Gilded Age and it's starting to become clear why she needed the help of a lawyer, specifically, Thomas Raikes (Thomas Cocquerel). While The Gilded Age is primarily about the high society conflict between the Old New York of Peggy's employer, Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), and New Money families like George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), Peggy's concurrent story delves into the African-American woman's own struggles as a writer. But Peggy also is adamant about standing apart from her family and her reasons are slowly becoming clear.
Peggy has one of the most interesting storylines in The Gilded Age. Miss Scott's chance meeting with a desperate Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) led to her helping the penniless niece of Agnes van Rhijn reach New York City. Peggy's good turn was rewarded with a job as Agnes' secretary, which gave her a fashionable address on 5th Avenue and 61st Street and eliminated the need for her to return to her parents' Brooklyn home. Miss Scott has also made considerable progress in her writing career in a short time. After turning down a demeaning job at The Advocate, Peggy was hired by T. Thomas Fortune (Sullivan Jones), the editor of the New York Globe and the most prominent Black newspaperman in America. Not only is Peggy's work getting published but she also reported on the opening of Clara Barton (Linda Emond) and the Red Cross' upstate New York chapter opening.
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However, Peggy obviously harbored a secret that she finally (partly) confessed to Marian
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