Luncheon with Renee Rosen, author of "What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age" Lake Forest Book Store partnering with Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society in presenting Author Renee Rosen Tickets are $35.00 and include luncheon with book A fictional biography of the "Merchant Prince" Marshall Field, told from the point of view of his mistress Delia "Dell" Spencer, daughter of Franklin Spencer, one of Chicago's wealthiest purveyors of dry goods. In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: ""Give the lady what she wants." "His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.