Princess of Albemarle - Amelie Rives, Author and Celebrity At the Fin De Siecle

About the author

Jane Turner Censer is Professor Emerita of History at George Mason University and author of The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865 1895.

Summary

Draws from Amelie Rives’s early diaries, correspondence, and publications as well as the massive newspaper coverage she received during her lifetime to provide insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Turner Censer
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780813948195
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4819-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: American South; The American South Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous