Letters from Amélie Rives to Richard Hovey [manuscript], 11888-1889.
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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...
Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900
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Hovey was born in Normal, Ill. in 1864, the son of Charles Edward and Harriette Farnham Hovey. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1885. During the years 1891 and 1892 he travelled in England and France. In 1894 he married Mrs. Henriette Kanpp Russell and wrote Men of Dartmouth. In 1899 he accepted a position as lecturer at Columbia University and professor of English at Barnard College. He died in New York City in 1900. From the description of Papers, 1878-1961. (Dartmouth Co...
