num_pages: 336
description: A Proper Historical Romance seriesThe first book in a new series which will focus on the lives of real historical figures who have intriguing stories of courtship that are recreated in fictionalized accounts based on real biographical and social history research.It's 1836 and nineteen-year-old Fanny Appleton a privileged daughter of a wealthy upper-class Boston industrialist is touring Europe with her family. Like many girls of her day she enjoys the fine clothes food and company of the elite social circles. But unlike her peers Fanny is also drawn to education literature and more intellectual pursuits.Published author and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is also touring Europe but under much different circumstances. Widowed while on tour he has stayed in order to gather credentials that he hopes will secure his professorship at Harvard College. When Henry meets Fanny he sees in her a kindred spirit a lover of language and literature and high ideals. He is in love. Fanny however is uncertain. He is ten years older than she is and from a much lower social class. How could such a relationship ever thrive?Could a book of Henrys poetry personally delivered persuade Fanny to believe in a love that lasts forever and forever?
language: English
title: Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton
publisher: Shadow Mountain