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“The Gilded Age” refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades of the…

Mark Twain’s co-authored novel The Gilded Age, with Charles Dudley Warner, supplied the historical label. Fitzgerald, Howells and Dreiser did not coin it in that title.

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“The Gilded Age” refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades
of the twentieth century.
Who among the following American writers is credited with the coining of the term ?

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Mark Twain’s co-authored novel The Gilded Age, with Charles Dudley Warner, supplied the historical label. Fitzgerald, Howells and Dreiser did not coin it in that title.

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