Additional papers of Amélie Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy [manuscript] 1887-1920.

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Additional papers of Amélie Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy [manuscript] 1887-1920.

Portions of several of her plays, incl. Allegiance, Wild romance, Melcara: a tragedy in three acts, and Prologue to love and the princess [26 items]--Photographs and sketches, some of Mrs. Troubetzkoy and a number by her. A number of charcoal sketches by Pierre Troubetzkoy and several sketches inscribed to John Armstrong Chaloner--Letters, 1917-18, to Mrs. Troubetzkoy [3 items].

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University of Virginia. Library

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Troubetzkoy, Pierre, 1864-1936

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Chaloner, John Armstrong, 1862-1935

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Great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; from Cobham (Albemarle County), Va. From the description of Papers, 1862-1935. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465007 Albemarle County, Va., philanthropist and eccentric. From the description of Letter to George Perkins, 1907 December 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958766 ...

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...