Showing The New Women by Kathryn Ewers Bundy

When Claudia Thomas graduates from the newly formed Burnham College for Women, Class of 1880, she is not ready to trade the life of the mind for a husband and a house in town. She chooses to further her studies in Europe, buying time before the inevitable descent into maternity and domesticity. Her plans are interrupted when she meets a fellow expatriate one day in a Heidelberg city park.

Jeanette Taynor is a young widow, employed as nanny in the home of a rich businessman. Despite their differences in class and education, their lives intersect and intertwine, blossoming into a love that will not be broken.