WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE COUPLE?

    

Who do you think of when you think of famous couples?  There are many famous literary couples and couples from history.  Antony and Cleopatra are one of the most famous couples in history.  They've been immortalized by William Shakespeare.  Stacy Schiff has written a biography that separates fact from fiction.  While Richard Burton and Elizabeth, stars of the Cleopatra movie, may come to mind when you think of Cleopatra, she was a real person with a romantic relationship with Marc Antony over two thousand years ago.
Jane Austen books focus on love matches, and some of her characters are together forever in her books, such as Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Eyre and Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's book are another literary couple.  Usually in fiction there is something or someone keeping lovers apart and in the end, they find each other and live happily ever after.  However some stories don't have happy endings, such as "Romeo and Juliet."  Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are another couple who don't have a happy ending.


The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen / Susan Bordo.

 

Here are some other couples you might like to read about: Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Tarzan and Jane, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey,

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Lucie and Desi, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono,  George Burns and Gracie Allen, Cinderella and Prince Charming, and Tristan and Isolde. Well, the list could go on and on.

 

If you'd like to read about your favorite couple, come visit us at the library or check out our website.

 

Thanks for reading.