Diary of Hope Clement [manuscript] 1894 May 26-Sept. 24.

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Diary of Hope Clement [manuscript] 1894 May 26-Sept. 24.

A young girl's diary of a summer in Wales & England centers chiefly on hotels, shopping, visits to cathedrals & the weather. Brief meetings with George Meredith, Sir Gilbert Parker & Amélie Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy are recorded.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Parker, Gilbert, Sir, 1862-1932.

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Clement, Hope.

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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...

Meredith, George, 1828-1909

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