{"id":1953,"date":"2014-08-15T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:44:31","slug":"rives-amelie-louise-1863-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"RIVES, AMELIE LOUISE, 1863-1945"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer; socialite. Born– August 23, 1863, Richmond, Va. Parents– Alfred Landon and Sarah (Macmurdo) Rives. Goddaughter of Robert E. Lee. Moved to Mobile in 1870. Married– John Armstrong Chanler, June 14, 1888; divorced, 1895. Married– Prince Pierre Troubetzoy, February 18, 1896. Pursued a scandalous lifestyle that is reflected in her very successful novels. Suffered from rheumatic fever and treatment caused drug addiction; recovered from the addiction and used the experience for the basis of one book. One of the first American authors influenced by advances in psychiatry. Died June 15, 1945.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notable American Women, Women’s Who’s Who in America, 1914-1915; and Current Biography, 1945.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to St. John. New York; J.W. Lovell Co., 1891.<\/p>\n

As the Wind Blew. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.<\/p>\n

Athelwold. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1893.<\/p>\n

Augustine the Man. New York; John Lane, 1906.<\/p>\n

Barbara Dering. Philadelphia; J.B. Lippincott, 1893.<\/p>\n

A Brother to Dragons. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1888.<\/p>\n

Damsel Errant. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1898.<\/p>\n

The Elusive Lady. London; Hurst & Blackett, 1918.<\/p>\n

Firedamp. New York; F.A. Stokes, 1930.<\/p>\n

Ghost Garden.\u00a0 Toronto:\u00a0 S.B.Gundy, 1918.<\/p>\n

The Golden Rose. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1908.<\/p>\n

Herod and Marianne. Philadelphia; J. B. Lipppincott, 1888.<\/p>\n

Hidden House. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1912.<\/p>\n

Meriel.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Chatto and Windas, 1898.<\/p>\n

Pan’s Mountain. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1910.<\/p>\n

The Queerness of Celia. New York; F. A. Stokes, 1926.<\/p>\n

The Quick or the Dead? Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1888.<\/p>\n

The Sea Woman’s Clock, and November Eve. Cincinnati; Stewart Kidd Co. 1923.<\/p>\n

Sele’ne. New York:\u00a0 Harper and Brothers, 1905.<\/p>\n

Shadows of Flames. New York; F. A. Stokes, 1915.<\/p>\n

Tanis, the Sang Digger. New York; Town Topic Pub. Co., 1893.<\/p>\n

Trix and Over-the-Moon. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1909.<\/p>\n

Virginia of Virginia. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1888.<\/p>\n

Witness of the Sun.\u00a0 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1888.<\/p>\n

World’s End. New York; F. A. Stokes, 1914.<\/p>\n

Song Lyrics;<\/p>\n

My Laddie. New York; G. Schirmer, 1906.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Amelie Louise Rives Troubetskoy are held by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Writer; socialite. Born– August 23, 1863, Richmond, Va. Parents– Alfred Landon and Sarah (Macmurdo) Rives. Goddaughter of Robert E. Lee. Moved to Mobile in 1870. Married– John Armstrong Chanler, June 14, 1888; divorced, 1895. Married– Prince Pierre Troubetzoy, February 18, 1896. Pursued a scandalous lifestyle that is reflected in her very successful novels. Suffered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}