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Download * Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance PDF by ^ Jean Zimmerman eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance Emilee said Interesting For New York Lovers. I thought I was going to be reading a gilded age romance.The beginning of the book was satisfying but then became bogged down in the tedious struggles of Newton's book.The book Newton assembled is interesting and filled with details & details of New Amsterdam back to the late 1500s. Lots of detail. The romance/relationship of Newton & Edith got lost in the details. A tedious ending.. "An Historical True Romance" according to Book Addict. This is such
| Title | : | Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0151014477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
From the splendid cottages of the Berkshires to the salons of 1890s Paris, Love, Fiercely is the real story of a world long relegated to fiction.. Edith became the face of the age when Daniel Chester French sculpted her for Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, a colossus intended to match the Statue of Liberty’s grandeur. Theirs was a world filled with mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European vacations. Together Edith and Newton battled on behalf of New York’s poor and powerless as reformers who never themselves wanted for anything. Newton became a passionate preserver of New York history and published the finest collection of Manhattan maps and views in a six-volume series. The New York love story of a beautiful heiress and a wealthy young architect, captured in a famous John Singer Sargent paintingIn Love, Fiercely Jean Zimmerman re-creates the glittering world of Edith Minturn and Isaac Newton Phelps S
Children of the elite were raised to marry within the tribe. Questions for Jean ZimmermanWhat inspired you to write Love, Fiercely?Love, Fiercely? is a dual biography of Edith and Newton Stokes. What obsession did it spring from? And when I went to look up the author’s name--strange name it was, too, I. They fell in love when they were children, a love that lasted until they were parted by death.What was unusual about John Singer Sargent’s painting, "Mr. And the painting that immortalized them, by John Singer Sargent, was an aesthetic masterpiece.Newton and Edith went through good times and bad. Then, as I dug a bit and found out that his wife Edith had been a great beauty and artist&rs
Emilee said Interesting For New York Lovers. I thought I was going to be reading a gilded age romance.The beginning of the book was satisfying but then became bogged down in the tedious struggles of Newton's book.The book Newton assembled is interesting and filled with details & details of New Amsterdam back to the late 1500s. Lots of detail. The romance/relationship of Newton & Edith got lost in the details. A tedious ending.. "An Historical True Romance" according to Book Addict. This is such a lovely book. It is the real life story of Edith Minturn and Newton Stokes, two of the movers and shakers in the late 1800s New York. The image on the cover is, of course, by John Singer Sargent. The author has done a very credible job of recreating the era, breathing life into the main characters, and conveying to the reader just what a significant wave of change these two were both riding and alsocreating. We always believe that is is only our own generation that experiences the angst of change, forgetting that this is, indeed, the history of time.Ediththe beautiful socialite who is leading the charge on many fro. The Heiress And The Architect / Philanthropy And Preservation Among The Wealthy During The Gilded Age J. A. Bell This double biography of Edith (Minturn) Stokes and Newton Stokes was inspired by the double portrait, "Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes," by John Singer Sargent, painted in 1897. Isaac Newton Stokes and Edith Minturn had been born into two of New York's wealthiest families in the same year, 1867 and grew up during "The Gilded Age," the period of rapid economic development following the Civil War and Post-Reconstruction era of the late 1900s. Although the Minturn and Stokes families were both members of "the 400" (the "haves" of this era, those who qualified to hobnob with the Astors) and both attended the same Episcopal service
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