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FROM: Sheryl Groskurth <sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:19 PM

Hi,
We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
I'll compile the list if you'd like.
Sheryl Groskurth
Waterloo Public Library
Waterloo IA

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:41 PM

>From: Sheryl Groskurth <sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Literary Lovers
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:16:53 +0000
>
>Hi,
>We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
>stories.

Romeo & Juliet!

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FROM: Barry Trott <btrott@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:53 PM

Here are some lovers:

Romeo and Juliet
Paolo and Francesca
Rhett and Scarlet
Dido and Aeneas
Miranda and Ferdinand (The Tempest)

And some stories about love and lovers:

Possession -- A.S. Byatt
Crossing to Safety -- Wallace Stegner
A Mixture of Frailties -- Robertson Davies

Barry

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Sheryl Groskurth wrote:

> Hi,
> We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
> stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
> Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
> I'll compile the list if you'd like.
> Sheryl Groskurth
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo IA
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: msmarlyn1@cs.com
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:06 PM

Gone With the Wind.

Marlyn


"Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
> stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
> Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
> I'll compile the list if you'd like.
> Sheryl Groskurth
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo IA
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:18 PM

In a message dated 1/22/2001 3:17:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us writes:

<<
Hi,
We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
I'll compile the list if you'd like.
Sheryl Groskurth
Waterloo Public Library
Waterloo IA
>>

Is it a coincidence that all of the stories you cite seem to end unhappily?
I.e., one of the lovers is - shall we say - among the missing?

How about:
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Rebecca

In each of the above, the hero and heroine are among the living and together
at the (happy) end of the book. There are no doubt other examples.

Just a suggestion, of course.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:35 PM

Then of course there's the famous (infamous?) Casanova and his memoirs. Whether he qualifies sort of depends on your definition of "love", though --

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Sheryl Groskurth <sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:16:53 +0000

>Hi,
>We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
>stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
>Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
>I'll compile the list if you'd like.
>Sheryl Groskurth
>Waterloo Public Library
>Waterloo IA
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:07 PM

I failed to notice that this was limited to *fictional* great lovers. The veracity of Casanova's memoirs may be open to critical doubt, but so far as I know he was a real person.

I had another thought, though, after sending the previous message. What about Cyrano de Bergerac? His devotion to Roxanne's happiness -- even at the cost of his own -- surely qualified him as a great lover. And although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, so far as I know, the play by Rostand is fictional.

Bradley A. Scott.
Allen (Texas) Public Library

** All opinions are personal. **
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Bsbgc@aol.com
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:07:26 EST

>In a message dated 1/22/2001 3:17:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us writes:
>
><<
> Hi,
> We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
> stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
> Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
> I'll compile the list if you'd like.
> Sheryl Groskurth
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo IA
> >>
>
>Is it a coincidence that all of the stories you cite seem to end unhappily?
>I.e., one of the lovers is - shall we say - among the missing?
>
>How about:
>Jane Eyre
>Pride and Prejudice
>Sense and Sensibility
>Rebecca
>
>In each of the above, the hero and heroine are among the living and together
>at the (happy) end of the book. There are no doubt other examples.
>
>Just a suggestion, of course.
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>romance novelist/former librarian
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:19 PM

At 03:22 PM 1/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Then of course there's the famous (infamous?) Casanova and his memoirs.
Whether he qualifies sort of depends on your definition of "love", though --
>
>Bradley A. Scott
>Allen (Texas) Public Library


While granting this may be a matter of definition, I think Casanova would
say (and often did say in the MEMOIRS) that he was in love with or at
least infaturated with almost every one of his partners (hired
professionals excluded). Only exceptions that come to mind (and my
spelling is probably
off) were Madame d'Urfe (whom he defrauded as a fake occultist, involving
sex magick which he found quite a trial), La Charpillone (after whom he
lusted after for a time, before coming to hate) and the washerwoman's
daughter with the offputting gastrointestinal problem. And since he never
actually achieved congress with the last two, I'd say the *not* loved to
loved partners ratio
(again, excluding bordello inhabitants etc.) must be something like one to
one hundred. (Of course, he was also prone to fall *out* of love, or out of
infatuation, frequently and sometimes rather easily--not always, though.)

Besides, one must defend the honor of one of the few famous professional
librarians of history...

By the way, the Machen translation of Casanova's MEMOIRS is now
available online at

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/casanova.html

FROM: "Carl Heffington" <hefngton@lmxac.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:51 PM

Don Juan
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Literary Lovers


> At 03:22 PM 1/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Then of course there's the famous (infamous?) Casanova and his memoirs.
> Whether he qualifies sort of depends on your definition of "love",
though --
> >
> >Bradley A. Scott
> >Allen (Texas) Public Library
>
>
> While granting this may be a matter of definition, I think Casanova would
> say (and often did say in the MEMOIRS) that he was in love with or at
> least infaturated with almost every one of his partners (hired
> professionals excluded). Only exceptions that come to mind (and my
> spelling is probably
> off) were Madame d'Urfe (whom he defrauded as a fake occultist, involving
> sex magick which he found quite a trial), La Charpillone (after whom he
> lusted after for a time, before coming to hate) and the washerwoman's
> daughter with the offputting gastrointestinal problem. And since he never
> actually achieved congress with the last two, I'd say the *not* loved to
> loved partners ratio
> (again, excluding bordello inhabitants etc.) must be something like one to
> one hundred. (Of course, he was also prone to fall *out* of love, or out
of
> infatuation, frequently and sometimes rather easily--not always, though.)
>
> Besides, one must defend the honor of one of the few famous professional
> librarians of history...
>
> By the way, the Machen translation of Casanova's MEMOIRS is now
> available online at
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/casanova.html
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Suzanne Booker <sbooker@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 5:13 PM

Lancelot and Guinevere
Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy
Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester
Tarzan and Jane
Robin Hood and Maid Marian

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Sheryl Groskurth wrote:

> Hi,
> We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
> stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
> Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help us?
> I'll compile the list if you'd like.
> Sheryl Groskurth
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo IA
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Msmarlyn1@cs.com
REC'D: 1/22/01, 11:13 PM

Cathy and Heathcliff.

Marlyn K. Roberts
msmarlyn1@cs.com

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 1/23/01, 7:54 AM

How about:

Robin and Marion

Heloise and Abelard

Cupid and Psyche

Beauty and the Beast

Ivanhoe and Rebecca (unrequeited, of course)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Mary Ann Bakken <MABakken@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 9:06 AM

I did a similar display a couple of years ago. Here's the list I compiled,
along with the books in our collection that showcased the couples:

Mary Ann Bakken
St. Charles (IL) Public Library

This Thing Called Love - Famous Couples in Literature


Anthony Evelyn Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert: a novel
Austen Jane Darcy, Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Benn Pride and
Prejudice
Austen Jane Ferrars, Edward and Elinor Dashwood Sense
and Sensibility
Bronte Charlotte Rochester, Edward and Jane Eyre Jane Eyre

Bronte Emily Earnshaw, Catherine and Heathcliffe Wuthering
Heights
Coastain Thomas Napoleon and Josephine The Last Love
Dinesen Isak Karen Blixen and Denus Finch-Hatton Out of
Africa
DuMaurier Daphne Rebecca and Maxim DeWinter Rebecca
Edwards Anne Simpson, Wallis and Edward VIII Wallis: the novel

Feyrer Gayle Robin of Locksley and Maid Marion The Thief's
Mistress
Foster Margaret Barrett, Elizabeth and Robert Browning Lady's
Maid
Gabaldon, Diana Claire and Jamie Fraser Outlander
Giardina Denise Henry V and Catherine Good King Harry
Hammett Dashiell Charles, Nick and Nora The Thin Man
Harrod-Eagles Cynthia Victoria and Albert I, Victoria
Jones Ellen Eleanor of Acquataine and Henry II Beloved
Enemy
Kaye M.M. Ashton, Hilary Akbar and Anjuli The Far Pavilions

Leroux Gaston Christine and Erik Phantom of the Opera
Lofts Nora Eleanor of Acquataine and Henry II Eleanor the
Queen
Mackin Jeanne Eleanor of Acquataine and Henry II The Queen's War
McCullough Colleen de Bricassart, Ralph and Meggie Cleary The Thorn Birds

McKenzie Nancy Lancelot and Guinevere The High Queen
Mitchell Margaret Butler, Rhett and Scarlett O'Hara Gone With the Wind

Newman Sharan Lancelot and Guinevere Guinevere
Newman Sharan Lancelot and Guinevere The Chessboard Queen
Newman Sharan Abelard and Heloise Devil's Door
Pasternak Boris Yuri Zhivago and Lara Dr. Zhivago
Penman Sharan Kay Eleanor of Acquataine and Henry II The Queen's Man
Plaidy Jean Eleanor of Acquataine and Henry II Courts of
Love
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano and Roxanne Cyrano de Bergerac
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe and Rowena Ivanhoe
Segal, Erich Jennie and Oliver Love Story
Selenko Annemarie Napoleon and Josephine Desiree
Shakespeare William Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet
Waller Robert James Kincaid, Robert and Francesca Johnson The Bridges of
Madison County
White TH Lancelot and Guinevere The Once and Future King

Wooley Persia Lancelot and Guinevere Child of the Northern Spring

> ----------
> From: Sheryl Groskurth[SMTP:sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us]
> Reply To: Fiction_L
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:59 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Literary Lovers
>
> Hi,
> We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
> stories. For example, Wuthering Heights, Bridges of Madison County, Love
> Story, Lady Chatterley's Lover. And then we're stumped. Can anyone help
> us?
> I'll compile the list if you'd like.
> Sheryl Groskurth
> Waterloo Public Library
> Waterloo IA
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Barbara Scanio" <barbarasc@gwmail.plano.gov>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 4:43 PM

don't forget the Taming of the Shrew

>>> sevenstars39@hotmail.com 01/22/01 02:20PM >>>

>From: Sheryl Groskurth <sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Literary Lovers
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:16:53 +0000
>
>Hi,
>We would like to do a display of fictional great literary lovers & love
>stories.

Romeo & Juliet!

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/24/01, 9:03 AM

>From: Suzanne Booker <sbooker@monroe.lib.in.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Literary Lovers
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:11:45 -0500 (EST)
>
>Lancelot and Guinevere
>

Doris James Roberts wrote a novel about Tristan & Isolde; I believe the
title, logically enough, was "The Enchanted Cup." Surely it would qualify.
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FROM: "Deb Warner" <dwarner@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/24/01, 11:00 AM

These aren't "celebs" but they certainly are literary. What about Byatt's
POSSESSION? It involves two academics (who become lovers) discovering the
truth about two 19th century authors who turn out have been lovers. Copious
excerpts from the works of the earlier pair are included

FROM: Patricia Anderson <pa0096@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
REC'D: 1/24/01, 4:02 PM

"Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquival
"Great Expectations" by Dickens

Pat A., FCPL

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