The seventh lecture on women of the Gilded Age in Southampton will be all about Caroline Helen Parrish Brown. Tragically, at the age of five, Helen loses her mother, but she is doted on by her father, the wealthy bon vivant James Parrish, and by her grandmother Sarah Redwood Parrish and her Uncle Sam Parrish, Southampton’s beloved benefactor. She and her brother James Jr. spend long, lazy summers moving among the various Parrish summer “cottages” in Southampton – some of the most beautiful residences anywhere.
