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1036: 267: 464: 230: 46: 345:, a tragedy based upon the historical facts given by Josephus. It was filled with passion, deep intrigue, wild jealousy, hatred, murder, and terrible revenge. It was undoubtedly a strong play, demonstrating literary and' dramatic genius, but it was said to need "pruning to rid it of its coarseness and passion, and make it acceptable". Had Troubetzkhoy intended all that her readers found in her last named works she would have continued in the same vein when 338:, was published in 1888 and remains her most famous and popular work. The novel, which depicts a newly widowed woman struggling with her erotic passion for her late husband's cousin, was condemned as "immoral", "unfit to be read", and "impure". Rives was criticized for pandering to the public and offending the refined tastes of readers who had been previously charmed by her stories. The negative publicity helped the notorious book sell over 300,000 copies. 887: 286:. She was educated entirely at home under private tutors. She was always an imaginative child who delighted in gathering around her the neighbors' children and rehearsing to them her new ideas. She was then and later, morbidly sensitive, and there was no estimating how much that may have accounted for many of her peculiarities, and much concerning her that was not understood. 1063: 426:
She studied art in Paris, and her friends feared that its fascinations would interfere with her literary work. Her health became impaired, however, so that she was forced to abandon the brush and then it was that she resumed the pen. Troubetzkoy was a close friend of novelist
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said that Rives never spoke of herself or her writings. "Instead of pushing her work upon me, she was so modest about it that I had to get the first story published through her mother." Her first published work,
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appeared. This was as free as possible from all that could offend, showing that the author was not conscious of much that her former words implied. Her 1914 novel,
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She died June 15, 1945, and was buried at Rives Troubetzkoy Cemetery, Cismont, Albemarle County, Virginia. Troubetzkoy's papers are held at the
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By the time Rives was fifteen, she had written verses, essays, and stories, but with no intention of publishing them. Like
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in 1886 and attracted immediate attention for its daring originality. Other stories soon followed, including
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Three Virginia writer: Mary Johnston, Thomas Nelson Page, and Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy. A Reference Guide
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American Authors: A Hand-book of American Literature from Early Colonial to Living Writers
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was reputed to be "the best seller in New York City". Her other works included
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In 1896, just four months after their divorce, she married Prince Pierre
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National Park Service - Journey Through Hallowed Ground – Castle Hill
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for many years, she destroyed all that she wrote. The editor of the
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Personal website of a relative of Amélie Rives with images
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Later, she turned to theater and began writing plays for
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Photograph in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
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Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
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A Study 471:, reproduced from painting by 392:In 1888, Amélie Rives married 317:Farrier Lam of Piping Pebworth 13: 1: 636: 607:(S. B. Gundy, Toronto, 1918) 331:, as well as several poems. 86:Rives Troubetzkoy Cemetery, 7: 1115:20th-century American poets 985:Longest, George C. (1978). 914:Auchincloss, Louis (1974). 255:. She was a goddaughter of 27:American writer (1863–1945) 10: 1171: 1054:Retrieved 5 December 2014. 989:. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall. 589:& Co., New York, 1914) 280:Albemarle County, Virginia 458: 341:In 1889, Rives published 289: 183: 125: 117: 109: 101: 93: 82: 70: 55: 43: 32: 1120:American women novelists 958:Lucey, Donna M. 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Amélie Louise Rives
Amélie Rives in 1890
Richmond, Virginia
Cismont, Virginia
John Armstrong Chanler
William Cabell Rives
Robert E. Lee
New York City

Harper's
Richmond, Virginia
Alfred L. Rives
Marie-Amélie
Robert E. Lee
William Cabell Rives

Castle Hill
Albemarle County, Virginia
Mobile, Alabama
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly
Broadway
Booth Theatre
John Armstrong Chanler
John Winthrop Chanler
Astor family
George Curzon
Troubetzkoy
Oscar Wilde

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