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"You are the greatest love of my life. From here on, everything I do will be in your name, for us, for the life we build together."
For decades, George and Bertha shared sweet notes waxing poetic about their dedication to one another. Until one year, the notes stopped.
Interconnected stories based on the letters George and Bertha sent to one another, from the year they met to the year they were apart.
Written for the Gilded Age Creator's Cotillion 2026.
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22 Jul 2026
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Sad and confused that her engagement to Larry still hasn’t mended, Marian decides to leave for England at Gladys’ invitation. Back in New York, after George’s cold departure leaves Bertha uncertain whether their marriage will survive, she struggles to face life alone—rejected by both her husband and her son. Meanwhile, at the Van Rhijns’, Oscar drops a bombshell that leaves his family reeling.
(Set after the Season 3 finale—a taste of how I’d like Season 4 to unfold)
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22 Jul 2026
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George Russell is one of America's most renowned pastry chefs. If only he could convince Clay to let him stop taking these wedding cake special orders. He hates wedding cakes. And he especially hates dealing with brides. He'll just handle this last one, for this Bertha Connolly, and then he'll get back to what he actually enjoys.
In which George is grumpy but besotted, Bertha is engaged to someone who definitely isn't him, and the rest of our cast of characters have to deal with all the headaches that ensue from those two central facts.
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22 Jul 2026
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A week of rake!George. If you know me, you know how this is going to go for him.
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22 Jul 2026
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Larks Never Will When They're Captive by DroughtofApathy for viv_w
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
12 Jan 2025
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Ten people gather on Robins Island for an amusing, delightfully droll weekend in the country. When a harmless parlor game reveals troubling secrets, and their eccentric host drops dead on the sitting room floor, the guests soon realize their reputations aren't the only things at stake.
And the bodies just keep piling up.
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- Part 29 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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22 Jul 2026
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but if i showed up at your party (would you have me? would you want me?) by m4rianbr00k (restlesstxclimb)
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
04 Oct 2025
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He is twenty-eight and halfway to becoming a millionaire when he finds her again. He’d have preferred for them to reunite somewhere else— preferably a dive bar, with obnoxious lighting and quirkily named drinks that would’ve made her snort-laugh once upon a time— but George supposes that a cocktail reception isn’t so bad.
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High school sweethearts George and Bertha broke up ten years ago over a misunderstanding that neither of them realises exists. When they reunite at a reception for work, they come to realise that some things really are written in the stars.
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21 Jul 2026
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*New chapter now available*
After an accident that knocks him unconscious, George wakes up to realize he doesn't recognize anything — or anyone.
And the only thing more shocking than finding out he is now one of the richest men in the country... is learning who became his wife.
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Set a few years after the end of season 2 / Canon Universe
Hurt/Comfort - Fluff - Romance (with some steamy moments down the road of course!)
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21 Jul 2026
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"We will return home as we planned, and then Mother and Father will both follow.” Gladys felt a strange mixture of pride and shame flicker through her as she realized just how much she sounded like Mother as she spoke. So self-confident, planning, plotting. She was mildly horrified to realize she rather relished the feeling.
Her parents were, after all, currently at odds. The two people in her life who had left such a lasting impression of how important a role love could truly play in a marriage—at odds with each other. Separated, even, Father having retreated to his ridiculous club and Mother all but holing herself up in the house on 61st.
It simply would not do.
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19 Jul 2026
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At 18, Bertha Kelly is hot-tempered, headstrong, and far too clever for her own good. One of twelve children, she's sick of her life as the daughter of Famine Irish immigrants in Kansas -- she wants more, and she's determined to get it.
A trip to visit wealthier relations in Cincinnati gives her a taste of the life she knows she was born to lead; and she swears then and there that she's never going back. When she meets arrogant, ambitious, infuriatingly handsome George Russell, she can't stand him. She also can't stop thinking about him.
Turns out the feeling is mutual.
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Or, the George and Bertha origin story you know you want, featuring a rough-around-the-edges teenage Bertha; a dumb, cocky George who hasn't quite figured out how to charm women; and the big dreams (and big egos) that bring them together (and sometimes push them apart).Bookmarked by noradurst
18 Jul 2026
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In which Maud Beaton swindles Oscar, making off with the van Rhijn fortune; and Marian resigns herself to marrying Cousin Dashiell to save her aunts from financial ruin.
Larry has an alternate solution. It just might take him a while to get there. It might help if he could figure out why he's so angry about Marian's engagement.
Meanwhile, determined that his cousin not sacrifice her happiness for him, Oscar tracks Maud down, with a third solution in mind. Good thing he doesn't tell anyone in New York about his plans. Clear communication would make everything much too easy.
(AU after 2x06; written entirely between 2x06 and 2x08, because I am insane, apparently)
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18 Jul 2026
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The season has ended. George has left. And Bertha Russell—who has never in her life stood still—finds herself with nothing left to build toward and no one left to build it for.
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17 Jul 2026
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The Rash Decisions of George and Bertha Russell by Incirrata
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
08 Jul 2026
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“You are what?” George asked, freezing in place.
He was drunk enough. Perhaps she could still convince him he heard her wrong the first time. But god, she had barely any control over her actions as it was, her body shaking with anger, her skin prickling with need to hurt him as much as he had insisted on hurting her.
“Alfred Merrick proposed to me, and I said yes. We are getting married."
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17 Jul 2026
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If Bertha could bottle it, she would: the heart-pounding exhileration of standing on the ice bowing to raucous applause; how George pulls her into his arms like they're two magnets; the smell of him, slightly sweaty but oh-so-familiar; and the feeling of his heart against her chest, beating in time with hers, until the adrenaline fades and they come slowly unstuck. They're on the top of their game, and definitely on the top of the World standings, and no one, the fans say, is doing ice dance chemistry like them.
It helps that Bertha is irrevocably, hopelessly, immutably in love with George.
It hurts that Bertha is irrevocably, hopelessly, immutably in love with George.
(a figure skating AU)
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17 Jul 2026
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It just figures that the first time Bertha sees her ex-husband again, she's got her hands in some guy's chest.
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17 Jul 2026
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When George Russell promises his daughter the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, he discovers some things can't be bought.
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17 Jul 2026
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There’s no problem. None at all. It’s just a big fuss over nothing.
Or, Bertha Russell puts herself back together, George Russell falls apart.Bookmarked by noradurst
15 Jul 2026
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They say you can never go home again. But then, Bertha Russell has never been one to follow what they say.
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15 Jul 2026
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A season 3 rewrite.
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15 Jul 2026
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the seasons of your life by fangirl_squee for skatingsplits
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
08 Aug 2025
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George and Bertha were married for a little over two decades. After they divorce, it takes only a little less than that for them to meet again. The more things change…
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13 Jul 2026
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She arrives at the dock chasing hope, leaving behind a life of struggle for the chance of something more. He arrives dreading the future that awaits him on land, a life shaped by duty and expectations he never asked for.
Neither of them plan to find love, but fate has other plans, drawing them together before the voyage even begins. As the days slip by, their connection blossoms into something real and unmovable.
Then comes the night that changes everything. Their fight for survival binds them for eternity, but the real test comes once they reach the shore.
Where a society determined to keep them apart threatens to sink them all over again.
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12 Jul 2026