Love is an extremely powerful feeling. Couples in love have
sparked wars and controversy throughout history, created masterpieces in
writing, music, and art, and grabbed the public's hearts with the power of
their relationships. From Cleopatra's allure to the Kennedys' magnetism, these
love romances have left their mark on history. Prepare to swoon over these
romantic tales from the past.
1: John and Abigail
Adams love story.
At the age of 20, Abigail Smith married the
Founding Father, gave birth to five children (including America's fifth
president, John Quincy Adams), and served as John Adams' confidante, political
advisor, and First Lady. The over 1,000 letters they exchanged to each other
provide insight into John and Abigail's undying love and friendship. More than
revolutionary political principles kept the revolution alive.
2: Mary Godwin Shelley and Percy Shelley love
story.
Mary Godwin was the teenage daughter of a famous
trailblazing feminist, the long-dead Mary Wollstonecraft, when Percy Shelley
encountered her as a young Romantic poet. They had a mental love—"Soul
meets soul on lovers' lips," he wrote—but physical yearning took them away
as well, culminating near Mary's mother's grave. They generated a great scandal
when they fled to Europe, but the coup was successful.
3: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and
Robert Browning love story.
"I love your verses with all my heart, dear
Miss Barrett," Robert Browning wrote, praising their "fresh strange
music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos, and true new brave
thought." Elizabeth Barrett was an accomplished and respected poet in poor
health (and nearly 40 years old) when Robert Browning wrote to her: "I
love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett." Because of her
family's opposition, they courted in secret. "I am not a cold nat,"
she wrote.
4: John Keats and Fanny Brawne love story.
Though the
relationship was filled with jealousy, the acclaimed young poet's passion with
his neighbor, Fanny Brawne, sparked what is undoubtedly his best famous poem,
"Bright Star." Keats was a wildly ardent bard, whereas Brawne was a
precocious and flirty young woman. The two clashed as much as they united, but Keats' lack of funds and his
illness prevented them from fully requisitioning their love.
5: Gertrude Stein
and Alice B. Toklas love story.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
Toklas were inseparable for nearly 40 years, famous for their literary salon in
Paris, which attracted luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and others. "It was Gertrude Stein who had
my whole attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her till her
death, and all these emphatic words," Toklas (far left) wrote when she
first met Stein.
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