Amélie Troubetzkoy letter to Mr. Young, ca. 1900?.

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Amélie Troubetzkoy letter to Mr. Young, ca. 1900?.

Amélie Troubetzkoy writes to Mr. Young from Virginia, undated, thanking him for his letter, resisting his description of her as haughty, and mentioning that she has been busy with the settling of her mother's estate.

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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...