Isabelle Gardner and John Lowell Gardner

Isabelle meets her friend Julia Gardner who is super rich. She becomes extremely depressed and has like a ton of health issues. Doctors in the 1860s were like best I can do is you should go to Europe. In 1867 Isabelle has a miscarriage and has been told she can never have children. Her husband dies from pneumonia two years later. Isabella collects art but also interesting friends like everyone from artists to professors to suffragettes. There are rumors about this novelist's romantic or sexual relationship with F. Scott Fitzwilliams.