The princess of Albemarle : Amélie Rives, author and celebrity at the fin de siècle / Jane Turner Censer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Censer, Jane Turner, 1951- author.

Series:

The American South Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Rives, Amélie, 1863-1945.

Rives, Amélie.

United States.

Southern States.

Genre:

History

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Tells the life of Amelie Rives, a talented, privileged young woman who was one of the most famous women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. This account of Rives's substantial literary career and her personal saga provides insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South. Censer contextualizes Rives's writings and actions within an American society and culture that were rapidly changing between 1880 and the 1920s and explores the ways in which she challenged and followed the gender conventions of her day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. "There May Be Something Yet for Me to Do in This Big World"

Two. "A Gifted and Promising Young Authoress"

Three. "The Most Noted of the Younger Writers"

Four. "A Hot, Tempestuous Story"

Five. "My Life Is Ruined for Me"

Six. "I Would Teach Her That Passion . . . Is a Great, Pure Fire"

Seven. "The Most Beautiful Woman in Literature"

Eight. "All That I Ever Dreamed of Love Is Mine, Mine, Mine"

Nine. "A Legend with the Men of Father's Age"

Epilogue. "Winter for [the Heart] All the Time"

Notes

Novels, Essays, and Stories by Amelie Rives

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Censer, Jane Turner The Princess of Albemarle

ISBN:

9780813948201

OCLC:

1519256045