Love, Fiercely

The true story of the New York society couple portrayed in the John Singer Sargent painting—an architect and an heiress who became passionate reformers . Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege—her grandparents built the world’s fastest clipper ship, while his family owned most of Murray Hill. Theirs was a world filled with mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European vacations. This fascinating bi