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Article: Rewriting heroines: Ruth Todd's "Florence Grey," society pages, and the rhetorics of success.
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- Studies in American Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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When the beautiful, light-skinned title character of Ruth Todd's "Florence Grey" (1902) is abducted from a garden party at her family's villa, it takes her friends some time to realize her absence is not voluntary. They do not know that the chaste belle of "Negro aristocracy" (1) has rebuffed the less-than-honorable attentions of a wealthy white man, Richard Vanbrugh, who now intends to imprison Florence in a "haunted" mansion and make her his concubine. Eventually the evidence of foul play accretes; Florence's friends and family find a shred of lace from her dress, the roses she carried, and "the much admired pearl-headed pin she wore in her hair" (185) on the ground. ...
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