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Article: Doomed Lovers of the Gilded Age: Author Donna Lucey Presents 'Archie and Amelie' at Washington College
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- February 17, 2009
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Washington College issued the following news release:
Author Donna M. Lucey will discuss sex, drugs, insanity and a tempestuous, ill-fated marriage at the turn of the 20th century when she presents "Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age" at Washington College's Rose O'Neill Literary House on Wednesday, February 25, at 4:30 p.m.
The lecture is presented by the Literary House in conjunction with the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
In her dual biography Archie and Amelie, Lucey uncovers the real-life story of two Gilded Age celebrities who were the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day. Archie Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune, was an eccentric ...