The Belle of Bowling Green by Amelia E. Barr

Description

Amelia E. Barr wrote historical novels for more than half a century and won a devoted readership on both sides of the Atlantic. The Belle of Bowling Green takes its title and its temper from the old square where New York’s merchant princes built their homes, with the Livingstons, Kennedys, and Jays looking down — and it conjures the fine old days between the rivers when the trade and wealth of the city lay between them and the heart of New York beat on the Bowling Green.

Into that world of dignity, lineage, and commerce Barr brings a heroine, suitors, and the tides of fortune that decide families as well as couples. Her prose carries the charming formality of her earlier age, her sense of setting is exact, and her sympathies are with the old city she recreates with evident love. A handsome, satisfying historical romance.

Why readers still come back to it

• A loving portrait of colonial and early-republic New York
• The great merchant families of the Bowling Green come to life
• Classic Amelia Barr storytelling — vivid, dignified, and sure

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