Amélie Rives

Rives, Amélie (1863–1945), playwright. The Virginia‐born poet and novelist, who married the Russian Prince Troubetzkoy, wrote a number of blank‐verse tragedies at the turn of the century, including Herod and Miriamne (1888), Athelwold (1893), and Augustine the Man (1906). At the same time she also dramatized her novelette, The Quick or the Dead? (1888), then years later wrote Allegiance (1918) with her husband. Rives's later works were a dramatization of The Prince and the Pauper (1920); a recounting of an old Irish legend, The Sea‐Woman's Cloak (1925); and a light triangle comedy, Love in a Mist (1926) with Gilbert Emery.