A Brother to Dragons and Other Old-Time Tales

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
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Author: Amelie Rives ISBN: 9781455305803
Publisher: Seltzer Books Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Amelie Rives
ISBN: 9781455305803
Publisher: Seltzer Books
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English

According to Wikipedia: "Amélie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (18631945) was an American novelist and poet. Rives wrote at least twenty-four volumes of fiction, numerous uncollected poems, and Herod and Marianne (1889), a verse drama. In 1888, she published novel The Quick or the Dead?, her most famous and popular work that sold 300,000 copies. The work depicted erotic passions of a newly widowed woman and earned Rives notoriety. Later she turned to theater and began writing plays for Broadway. Her play The Fear Market ran for 118 performances at the Booth Theatre in 1916. A goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and senator William Cabell Rives, Amélie Rives married eccentric John Armstrong Chanler (an heir to the Astor family fortune) of New York.The marriage was scandalous, but unhappy. The couple spent seven years as husband and wife, but most of the time lived apart. Rives flirted with George Curzon, her husband's younger brother, and began using drugs. In 1896, just four months after their divorce, she married Pierre Troubetzkoy, an artist and aristocrat. The couple resided at Castle Hill, near Cismont, Virginia.

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According to Wikipedia: "Amélie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (18631945) was an American novelist and poet. Rives wrote at least twenty-four volumes of fiction, numerous uncollected poems, and Herod and Marianne (1889), a verse drama. In 1888, she published novel The Quick or the Dead?, her most famous and popular work that sold 300,000 copies. The work depicted erotic passions of a newly widowed woman and earned Rives notoriety. Later she turned to theater and began writing plays for Broadway. Her play The Fear Market ran for 118 performances at the Booth Theatre in 1916. A goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and senator William Cabell Rives, Amélie Rives married eccentric John Armstrong Chanler (an heir to the Astor family fortune) of New York.The marriage was scandalous, but unhappy. The couple spent seven years as husband and wife, but most of the time lived apart. Rives flirted with George Curzon, her husband's younger brother, and began using drugs. In 1896, just four months after their divorce, she married Pierre Troubetzkoy, an artist and aristocrat. The couple resided at Castle Hill, near Cismont, Virginia.

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