The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle

"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"--

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 04/28/2022
ISBN: 9780813948195
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021