This Thing Called Love
Historical Couples in Fiction

Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
Charles and Catherine Dickens

Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark

Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen by India Edghill
King David and Queen Michal

Wallis by Anne Edwards
Prince Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

Rival to the Queen by Carolly Erickson
Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I

Pharaoh by Karen Essex
Antony and Cleopatra

Lucy by Ellen Feldman
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherford

The Last Queen by C. W. Gortner
Philip the Fair and Queen Juana of Castile

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Henry the VIII and Mary Boleyn

The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory
Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I

Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
Louis XIV and Louise de la Vallière

Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers by Barbara Hambly
The First Four Presidential Couples

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney

All for Love by Dan Jacobson
Second Lieutenant Geza Mattachich and Princess Louise of Belgium

Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin
Count Jan Steinicki and Countess Anna Maria Berezowska of Poland

Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer

Becoming Madam Mao by Anchee Min
Mao Zedong and Jiang Chang

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Amunhotep and Nefertiti

Passion by Jude Morgan
George Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, and the women who loved them

Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy
Louis XII and Queen Mary

Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King

Love is Eternal: A Novel about Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln by Irving Stone

The President’s Lady: A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Irving Stone

Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II by Alison Weir