Article: Thomas Nelson Page's Sonnet to Amelie Rives *. (Document).

IT WOULD SEEM THAT THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922) and Amelie Louise Rives (1863-1945) had much in common. They were both born in Virginia: Page at Oakland, Hanover County, and Rives at nearby Richmond. They both became prominent: Page as the author of such works as In Ole Virginia (1887), which glorified the plantation tradition, and Red Rock (1898), which emphasized military rule during Reconstruction; Rives as the author of The Quick or the Dead? (1888), about a woman torn between her love for her dead husband and for the living cousin who resembled him, and Barbara Dering (1892), about a heroine who "represented the `new woman' at the turn of the century: robust, yet ...

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