Virginia of Virginia by Amélie Rives

Amélie Louise Rives was born in 1863 in Richmond, Virginia to noted engineer Alfred L. Rives and the former Sadie MacMurdo. The younger son of a titled Englishman emigrates to America to establish a stud-farm in post-Civil War Virginia. He meets and falls in love with the daughter of the farm’s caretaker. She was named after her aunt Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie. She was a goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and Senator William Cabell Rives, who had also been American ambassador to France.