{"id":13291,"date":"2012-02-14T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:39:05","slug":"love-and-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/02\/love-and-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Janice Schulz<\/em><\/p>\n

In honor of St. Valentine\u2019s Day, the Archives & Rare Books Library is highlighting some of our holdings related to love, romance, and marriage. \u00a0Like the course of romance itself, our material can run the gamut from wonderful, to bittersweet, to downright tragic.<\/p>\n

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Basil and Isabel March rest in the Boston ticket office before continuing Their Wedding Journey.<\/p><\/div>\n

Their Wedding Journey<\/em>, written by William Dean Howells in 1871, chronicles the expedition of newlyweds Basil and Isabel March, a European couple taking their honeymoon in North America. The March\u2019s are beyond the \u201cstandard,\u201d age of newlyweds, having had some fits and starts in their relationship before finally tying the knot, and as such, they wish to behave with a bit more maturity than the average honeymooners. Disembarking in Boston (where, on a local note, conversation from the ticket counter leads them to believe that \u201cit is easy enough to buy a ticket in Cincinnati, but it is somewhat harder to arrive there\u201d) their plans take them through New York, to Niagara, Montreal, and finally Quebec. The story is one of a truly contented couple. Upon arriving home, \u201cTheir holiday was over to be sure, but their bliss had but begun; they had entered upon that long life of holidays which is happy marriage.\u201d The book is available in the ARB Rare Books collection, cataloged as PS2025 .T58 1871<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The cover page for Stephen Foster\u2019s Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair<\/p><\/div>\n

In the classic and beloved song Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair<\/em>, composer Stephen Foster extols the virtues of his beloved Jeanie, imagining her \u201ctripping where the bright streams play, happy as the daisies that dance on her way.\u201d Longingly he hears \u201cher melodies, like joys gone by\u201d But finally he laments that \u201cher smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown, flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.\u201d It has been suggested that Foster wrote Jeanie with his estranged wife Jane in mind.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s Molly Do You Love Me<\/em>offers a bit more hope as Molly\u2019s prospective suitor repeatedly inquires, \u201cMolly! do you love me? Tell me, tell me true! Molly! do you love me,\u00a0 Love as I love you?\u201d Molly is described as a \u201cmorning beam,\u201d<\/p>\n

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Music and drawings from Stephen Foster\u2019s Molly Do You Love Me?<\/p><\/div>\n

and her ringlets, eyes of blue, musical voice, and merry dimples provide every kind of enchantment to her captivated admirer. But alas, as the song ends we, like this love struck gentleman, are no closer to an answer to the question, \u201cMolly Do You Love Me?\u201d<\/p>\n

These and more of Foster\u2019s love songs can be found in our Stephen Foster Collection. The collection has been cataloged and is available in UCLID<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mary Gordon is rescued from her attic prison in A Sad, Sad Honeymoon<\/p><\/div>\n

A Sad, Sad Honeymoon<\/em>, published in 1899, tells two stories of love gone wrong. In the first, newlyweds George and Genie Gardiner have the terrible misfortune to stop in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on the very day in 1889 when a dam holding back the Conemaugh River breaks, unleashing its fury on the city. The \u201cDying Diary\u201d of the couple, found floating in a wooden box in the waters of Pittsburgh, tells of their last tragic days. \u00a0First written by Mr. Gardiner, then after his death continued by Mrs. Gardiner, the diary chronicles three days of heartbreak as they struggle to survive the disaster. Before dying, Genie Gardiner writes, \u201cBury George and me in one grave\u2026 Above all things do not take my wedding ring off, but please bury me with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the second story, Philadelphian Mary Lesley marries English gentleman Mr. Gordon, only to be neglected, imprisoned, and abused by her new husband before she is finally rescued by police from Scotland Yard. Mary is returned to her parents in America while Gordon is pursued and eventually found in Manitoba, where he ends his own life. The book is available in the ARB Rare Books collection, cataloged as PS648.W6 S22 1889<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some other books on the subjects of love and romance:<\/p>\n

Celtic and medi\u00e6val romance<\/em> by Alfred Nutt<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PB1097 .N88 1899<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essays on chivalry, romance, and the drama<\/em> by Sir Walter Scott<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PR5301 .E34 1834-36 v.6<\/a><\/p>\n

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A treatise of romances and their original<\/em> by Monsieur Huet.<\/p>\n

Translated from French<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PN3329 .H75 1672<\/a><\/p>\n

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The spirit of romance; an attempt to define somewhat the charm of the pre-renaissance literature of Latin Europe<\/em> by Ezra Pound<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PN681 .P6<\/a><\/p>\n

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Early English prose romances, with bibliographical and historical introductions<\/em> edited by William J. Thoms, F. S. A<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books \u00a0PR2115 .T5 1858<\/a> in 3 volumes<\/p>\n

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Love\u2019s bitter-sweet: translations from the Irish poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries<\/em> by Robin Flower<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PB1424 .F5 1925<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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A correspondence between Charles M. Titus of Hackettstown, N.J. and Rosanna Mintzer of Philadelphia, Pa<\/em> by Charles M. Titus<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PS673.L7 T5<\/a><\/p>\n

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Paneros; some words on aphrodisiacs and the like<\/em> by Norman Douglas<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books HQ12 .D6 1931<\/a><\/p>\n

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The inconstant mistris<\/em> by Thomas Carew<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books PR3339.C2 I5 1948<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, An useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry\u2019d life, incident to all degrees, from the throne to the cottage<\/em> \u2026\u00a0 by Edward Ward<\/p>\n

ARB Rare Books \u00a0PR3757.W8 N8 1723<\/a>\u00a0in 2 volumes<\/p>\n

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