Miscellany in hand of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1892?-1919.

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Miscellany in hand of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1892?-1919.

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The collection contains fragments of two pages in the author's hand which may be drafts of stories, together with an envelope containing a four-leaf clover. A note on the envelope, 1919 November 10, states it is the first she ever found.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...