Title: An unlikely suitor
Description: When dressmaker Lucy Scarpelli befriends socialite Rowena Langdon, she visits the Langdon mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and falls for a high-society man, while Rowena struggles with her upcoming arranged marriage.
Subjects: Immigrants, Social classes, Italians, Female friendship, Socialites, Dressmakers, Courtship, Fiction, History
Places: Newport (R.I.), New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 19th century