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Women and work, the new facts of life and was the author of tailspin. A gilded age romance is a dual biography of edith minturn stokes and isaac newton phelps stokes, a nineteenthcentury couple known for philanthropy, architecture and documenting new york city history. Jean zimmerman is a new yorkbased writer who has made the history of manhattan a central focus of both her fiction and nonfiction. How a colonial shemerchant built a mansion, a fortune and a dynasty. Jean zimmerman love, fiercely 1st edition 1st printing ebay. A gilded age romance as the greatest love story never told.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read love, fiercely. She earned an mfa in writing from the columbia university school of the arts and has. A gilded age romance jean zimmerman houghton mifflin harcourt, 320 pp. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. In tailspin doubleday, 1995 she wrote about intrepid navy fighter pilot kara hultgreen. Her husband, gil reavill, is a freelance journalist. Her most recent novel is savage girl viking, 2014, a mystery with a twist of fable about a feral child who gets transformed pygmalion style into a gilded age debutante. Its subject is the marriage of edith minturn and isaac newton phelps stokes, wealthy, passionate.
Zimmerman s historical novel the orphanmaster, set in 17th century new amsterdam, has been optioned for a film. Born in tarrytown, new york, she is a graduate of barnard college and columbia university school of the arts. The true story of the new york society couple portrayed in the john singer sargent paintingan architect and an heiress. The orphanmaster by jean zimmerman nook book ebook. Her superb pacing and gripping narrative will appeal to all who enjoy history, biography, and reallife romance. I also tell the story of my books, how they came to be, the process of. If you like what you see, its very easy to subscribe.
Love, fiercely ebook by jean zimmerman 97805477605. The most detailed part of the biography covers the lives of isaac and edith among the new york aristocracy from their late adolescence to their late twenties. Jean zimmerman published the book i had been waiting to read all these years. Throughout her writing career jean zimmerman has published both nonfiction and fictional works that center around the changing role of women in america. For her first book zimmerman coauthored, with felice n. Jean zimmerman love, fiercely a gilded age romance 1st edition 1st printing hardcover boston houghton mifflin harcourt 2012 near fine in a near fine dust jacket. About the author jean zimmerman is the author of four previous books, including the women of the house. Contemporaries of the astors and vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic staten. How a colonial shemerchant built a mansion, a fortune, and a dynasty, 2006, etc. Mar, 2012 in love, fiercely jean zimmerman recreates the glittering world of edith minturn and isaac newton phelps stokes. The new york love story of a beautiful heiress and a wealthy young architect, captured in a famous john singer sargent painting. Its an exquisite italianate structure, one of stokes finest accomplishments, and the first nonmckim, mead and white building erected on campus.
Youll find my take on the domestic here, because i love all that is culinary, needlework. Jean zimmerman collaborated with felice schwartz on breaking with tradition. Ballsy soccer players were the subject of raising our athletic daughters doubleday, 1998, with gil. In love, fiercely jean zimmerman recreates the glittering world of edith. Mar, 2012 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. Zimmerman, like sargent, sees something more in these two. A gilded age romance houghton mifflin harcourt 2012 an exquisitelyrendered.
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