Love Fiercely A Gilded Age Romance Author:Jean Zimmerman For readers who savored The American Heiress, Jean Zimmerman recreates the glittering world of Edith Minturn and I. N. Phelps Stokes. Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege ? her grandparents built the world?s fastest clipper ship, his family owned most o... more »f Murray Hill. Theirs was a world filled with mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European vacations.
Newton became a passionate preserver of New York history and published the finest collection of Manhattan maps and views in a six-volume series. Edith became the face of the age when Daniel Chester French sculpted her for Chicago?s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as The Republic, a colossus intended to match the Statue of Liberty?s grandeur.
Together they battled on behalf of New York?s poor and powerless, as reformers who could never themselves want for anything. Through it all, they lived what might be the greatest love story never told.
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.« less