
It's July 1895 and the New York elite have decamped to Newport, Rhode Island for a summer of balls, garden parties, and yacht races. Covering these events for the women's pages of the Newport Observer is Emma Vanderbilt-Cross, a fearless twenty-one-year-old writer with family ties to the wealthy Vanderbilt family.

as Emma Vanderbilt-Cross

as Jesse Whyte

as Derrick

as Brady Cross

as Nanny O'Neal

as Harriet Rice

as Goddard

as Adelaide

as Cornelius

as Neily

as Gertrude

as Aunt Alice

as Mason

as Milford

as Rupert

as Grace Winslow

as Miss Dickerson