Amelie Rives letter to W. B. Chilton [manuscriipt], 1887 May 1.

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Amelie Rives letter to W. B. Chilton [manuscriipt], 1887 May 1.

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Rives thanks Chilton for praising sonnets she published in Harper's noting "although I have written a great deal in my short life, I have not as yet published anything save a short story...."

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Chilton, W. B., fl. 1887,

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...