Rives, Amelie, an American novelist; born in Richmond, Va., Aug. 23, 1863. "The Quick and the Dead" was her first success. She became the wife of John A. Chanler in 1888. They were divorced on account of incompatibility. In 1896 she married Prince Pierre Troubetskoy, an artist.
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1912.