Mad about you: Archie and Amlie's Albemarle
They were the Scott and Zelda of the Gilded Age. She was a scandalous author from a pedigreed Albemarle family. He was a rich-as-sin Astor, who escaped from a New York insane asylum.
Albemarle at the turn of the 19th century was no stranger to the national spotlight. It was the era that produced the beautiful Langhorne sisters, one of whom achieved worldwide fame as the "Gibson Girl," as well as the sensational case of former Charlottesville mayor Sam McCue, hanged for murdering his wife. Yet Amélie Rives and John Armstrong Chaloner really gave Virginia– and America– something to talk about.
"It has everything: sex, money, celebrity, and tangled psychological states," says Donna Lucey, whose book, Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age, came out this summer. Better yet, much of the story is set in Keswick.
And yes, there's a dead body.
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