A House of Her Own Author:Marcia Rose The year is 1852 and Brooklyn seems worlds away from the bustle of Manhattan. But it is in Brooklyn Heights that a house is built for independent, strong-willed Amy Benedict Tallant - a house to be as substantial as her new marriage. Yet the house would prove to be more enduring.... — Here is a moving, panoramic novel of 140 years in the life of ... more »a remarkable family, and the majestic Brooklyn Heights brownstone they call home. Through the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the suffragist movement, the influx of immigrants and more, each new generation of the Tallant family bears witness to a changing world...and lives out its own very personal dramas.« less