Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance Book

Prologue xi

Part One
Enchanted Woods 3
Flying Cloud 13
Madison to the River 34
Big Mary 52
The Howling Swell 69
The Personal as the Political 82
Grand Mistakes 94
Rich and Romantic 105

Part Two
A Pleasure to Paint Her Portrait 119
The American Girl Herself 136
For Richer or Poorer 158
Smaller Castles 181
Pretty Manners 192

Part Three
Silent Bearers of Many a Half-Read Message 205
A Fine Object Lesson in Good Construction 220
Something in the Nature of the Marvelous 244
No Other City Will Live in the Future as New York Will 261
Our Goddess 278

Epilogue 285
Select Bibliography 290
Acknowledgments 296
Index 298