![]() ![]() That night, he and Eliza spend time together. Eliza glimpses him on the staircase and is intrigued, both because he has such a powerful (though obviously stressful) job and because he is very handsome. Alexander Hamilton arrives with a message summoning Eliza’s father to court over financial trouble. The first part of the book occurs on a single day in Albany, New York, at the Schuylers’ estate. ![]() ![]() The novel illuminates how the institution of marriage was once an economic as well as a social necessity but suggests that many women tried to resist being treated as commodities to be with those they loved. While Angelica and Peggy find wealthy men to marry, the family is conflicted over Alex’s continued love for Eliza and their friction with the violent Henry. Instead, Eliza is forced into an engagement with Henry Livingston, who turns out to be a rapist. Eliza falls in love with Alexander Hamilton, who will later become President of the United States, but since he is neither wealthy nor powerful as a young man, the Schuyler family drives them apart. Philip and Catherine Schuyler have no other chance at restoring their wealth than to find husbands for their three daughters, Angelica, Peggy, and Eliza. Set in the late eighteenth century, it follows the formerly wealthy Schuyler family whose home and land in New York are burned down by the British army. Alex and Eliza: A Love Story is a 2017 romance novel by Melissa de la Cruz. ![]()
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