Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009SS416Y
Publish date: March 13th 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Shamefully, I grabbed this book on the title and cover alone, and I really had no idea what I was getting into. Happily, this turned out to be a stellar read, engrossing as a novel and just as moving.Jean Zimmerman, while researching iconography and maps of Manhattan, came across Isaac Newton Phelp...
This double biography is as much an exquisite narrative of American life on the mid-Atlantic coast from the Gilded Age through World War I and the Great Depression as it is the story of Edith Minturn and Newton Stokes. Edith and her husband Newton grew up in the greater New York City area when State...