Love, Fiercely

The New York love story of a beautiful heiress and a wealthy young architect, captured in a famous John Singer Sargent painting

In Love, Fiercely Jean Zimmerman re-creates the glittering world of Edith Minturn and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilegeher grandparents built the world's fastest clipper ship, his family owned most of 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, a colossus intended to match the Statue of Liberty's grandeur. Together Edith and Newton battled on behalf of New York's poor and powerless as reformers who never themselves wanted for anything. Through it all, they sustained a strong-rooted marriage.

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.

Documents the Gilded Age love story of a beautiful heiress who fought for women's rights and a wealthy young architect depicted in the John Singer Sargent painting, Mrs. And Mrs. I.N. Phelps Stokes, tracing their privileged upbringings, their respective pursuits and their joint advocacy efforts on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. By the author of The Women of the House. 15,000 first printing.

General

ISBN		9780151014477
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages		320
List Price		$26.00
Author		Zimmerman, Jean
Publication Date		03/13/2012
Release Status		In Print
Format		Hardcover
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 8 Inches (US) Width: 5 Inches (US) Thickness: 1.25 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 0.42 Pounds (US)