History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

If a Poem Could Live or Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love Author: Mary Calvi Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: 2023 Pages: 320 Synopsis: A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary .      Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published― If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy.       Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Ted...

Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love Author: Mary Calvi Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: February 19, 2019 Pages: 320 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A never-before-told love story of George Washington and heiress Mary Philipse based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi. "Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted." --George Washington     Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George's relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America.      From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battle...