The Many Other Lives Gladys Russell Should Have Had
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She doesn’t want the life that her mother wants for her, or even her father, she wants to be free. It’s no small thing for her freedom.
So Gladys chooses a man who will offer her that.
She chooses Jack.
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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Season 3 (ish) AU-The Duke not at all impressed with her refusal rapes Gladys to guarantee a proposal. Gladys decides to do the only thing she can do and run away to build a life for herself…and her child. Along the way she meets a man and builds a life. But her family are not the richest in New York for nothing…and her mother is set to see her return home when the scandal breaks.
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New York 1894-Carrie Astor’s sudden death sends shockwaves through New York Society. The secrecy surrounding it provides Gladys Russell with a much needed escape route from her marriage to the Duke.
If only someone had a crystal ball and had warned her of what was to come next…
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Is This The Law Of Our Mortal Nature by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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MASSIVE AU-In which in a pointless effort to show off to his soon to be new bride the Duke of Buckingham shoots a dog…well…wolf. An appalled Gladys nurses said wolf to heath and—well—is somewhat surprised when he turns into a human man, stark naked in her bed at nine in the evening just after dinner.
What happens next is a scandal nobody would ever believe…
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For She's Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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The last thing anyone expected at the engagement party of Gladys Russell and the Duke of Buckingham was for a shootout that resulted in the kidnapping of the bride to be by suspected government agents.
Then again…the truth about the Duke’s…extracurricular activities are enough to blow that scandal out of the water.
Sort. Of.Or the Gladys Russell Spook AU.
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It's A Love Story (Baby Just Say Yes) by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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MASSIVE SUPERNATURAL AU-It never occurs to Gladys that werewolves exist. So why would she believe that werewolf hunters exist. Or that the Duke of Buckingham and his sister, like seriously his SISTER! Had a thing for hunting and torturing them.
But when an opportunity presents an escape (even with unthinkable consequences) Gladys is forced to take it and in the process learns more about love, loss, life and using her brain in the real world than she ever could as a Duchess.
Gladys/OMC
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The Ladder Of Our Mortal Success by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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AU-In 1889 the world is shocked by the front page of the newspapers declaring that the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham are to divorce. It sends shockwaves through New York society (though rumours that Caroline Astor gives her staff a day off paid are unfounded). Despite the brides mother’s desperation it is clear that the Duke of Buckingham is to marry another.
As for the Duchess…well…she has disappeared.And rumour has it with her husband’s groundskeeper.
This is what happens next….
Alternatively, the Gladys/OMC Lady Chatterley’s Lover AU.
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AU-The arrival of her Aunt a week before her wedding should not give Gladys the need an escape. But with her Aunt comes her companions son…and that sets in motion certain choices of which there is no coming back from.
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Ashes Denote The Fire That Was by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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Though it has to be said, accidently finding out he is catfishing and then trying to attack underage girls, accidentally sheltering a gentleman gangsters baby sister and then helping to put in motion a target assassination and mob war was really not what she had intended to do.
Or (Christ Here We Go!) The Gladys Russell/Organized Crime AU.
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A year after her marriage and a year after her miscarriage Gladys Russell separates from her husband the Duke of Buckingham and returns to New York.
Two years later Augustus Chamberlain returns to New York now a filthy rich man and determined to see the old breed pay for their crimes against his mother.
Watch the petty...I mean pretty fireworks.
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