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Amelie Rives (1863–1945)

Autore di A Brother To Dragons: And Other Old-Time Tales

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Nome legale
Troubetzkoy, Amélie Rives
Altri nomi
Rives, Amélie Louise
Troubetzkoy, Princess
Data di nascita
1863
Data di morte
1945
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Luogo di residenza
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Castle Hill, Cismont, Virginia, USA
Attività lavorative
novelist
poet
playwright
Relazioni
Cabell, James Branch (cousin)
Rives, William Cabell (grandfather)
Lee, Robert E. (godfather)
Magruder, Julia (friend)
Auchincloss, Louis (friend)
Rives, Hallie Erminie (cousin)
Breve biografia
Amélie Louise Rives was born in Richmond, Virginia, a granddaughter of Senator William Cabell Rives, who had been American ambassador to France.
She was the namesake of her aunt Amélie, a goddaughter of Marie-Amélie, Queen of France. In 1888, she published the novel The Quick or the Dead?, a racy bestseller that was her most famous and popular work out of the 24 volumes she produced. Later she turned to theater and began writing plays for Broadway. She married John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler, a descendant and heir of John Jacob Astor, but the union was unhappy and the couple lived apart for most of their seven years of married life. They toured Europe, making the acquaintance of literary figures such as Oscar Wilde and Henry James. In 1896, after their divorce, she married Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, a Russian-born artist and aristocrat. She was a friend of novelist Louis Auchincloss, who included a chapter on her in his memoir, A Writer's Capital (1974). See also Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age (2006) by Donna M. Lucey.

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