Book Pendants - Rose Cleveland | "George Elliot's Poetry & Other Studies" (1885)

These pendants are made from cuttings of Rose Cleveland's book "George Elliot's Poetry & Other Studies" published in 1885.

Each pendant is one-of-a-kind and unique. NEW pendants are added frequently. 

Pendants come on a 24" silver plated or gold chain (already predetermined). 

The History: Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (1846 – 1918) was an American author and lecturer. She was acting First Lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the presidency of her brother, Grover Cleveland, who married in 1886.

She was the first and only (still) first lady who was a lesbian.

She was extremely educated (especially for her time) and challenged gender norms. She used the role of first lady to galvanize support for women's suffrage.

After leaving the White House, Cleveland wrote several fiction and nonfiction works, many relating to women's rights. She was editor of a literary magazine for several months, and she continued teaching and lecturing.

She met the love of her life, Evangeline Marrs Simpson in 1889. They moved to Italy in 1910, where Cleveland spent her final years helping war refugees during World War I and then Spanish flu patients, before contracting the disease herself and dying in 1918.