RIVES, AMÉLIE

(1863-1945)

A Virginian who married a Russian prince, Amélie Rives dramatized her own novel,The Quick or the Dead? (1888), and composed several blank-verse tragedies, includingHerod and Miriamne(1888),Athelwold(1893), andAugustine the Man(1906). She demonstrated greater versatility in later plays, includingThe Fear Market(1916) andAllegiance, a 1918 collaboration with her husband Prince Troubetzkoy that centered on German-American frictions duringWorldWar I, after which she adapted Mark Twain'sThe Prince and the Pauper(1920) and collaborated withGilbert Emeryon a successful romantic comedy,Love in a Mist(1926). Turning to ancientIrishlegends for her source, Rives also wroteThe Sea-Woman's Cloak(1925).