Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (August 23, 1863 – June 15, 1945) was an American author of novels, poetry, and plays.

[2] She was a goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and Senator William Cabell Rives, Minister Plenipotentiary to France in the early part of the 19th century.

[3] Troubetzkoy's early life was spent at Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Virginia, and later the family moved to Mobile, Alabama.

[4] The novel, which depicts a newly widowed woman struggling with her erotic passion for her late husband's cousin, was condemned as "immoral", "unfit to be read", and "impure".

Rives was criticized for pandering to the public and offending the refined tastes of readers who had been previously charmed by her stories.

It was undoubtedly a strong play, demonstrating literary and' dramatic genius, but it was said to need "pruning to rid it of its coarseness and passion, and make it acceptable".

[4] In 1896, just four months after their divorce, she married Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, an artist and aristocrat[4] after Oscar Wilde introduced them in London.

[citation needed] She died June 15, 1945, and was buried at Rives Troubetzkoy Cemetery, Cismont, Albemarle County, Virginia.

[13] Troubetzkoy's papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia.