Frances Parkinson Keyes

A young woman brought up in a Brahmin family on Beacon Hill and her husband are exposed to different cultures for the first time when he joins a law firm that has experimented by hiring a Jew, an Irishman, and an Italian, in addition to their traditional Protestants. Can Emily and Roger befriend these seeming upstarts without offending their own families and associates? This is a romantic novel set in Boston sometime around WWII. It describes, as most of this author's books do, the clash of class and caste and the struggle of heroines to break away from convention and follow their hearts. Sort of thing.

Based on the life of Paul Morphy.

I, The King is the story of Philip IV of Spain and of the women who most influenced his life. Among them was his first wife, Isabel of Bourbon, the beautiful child bride who became his wife and respected Regent; his 'true love' Inés Calderón, the charming young actress, who gave him his best-loved son; and Sor María, the Abbess, gifted with mystical powers, of a remote provincial convent, whose correspondence with the King, comprised more than 600 letters and covers a period of more than twenty years.

"A best selling author looks back on the fascinating period of her school days and courtship"--Jacket subtitle.