Anne Marguerite

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid book, light foxing/soiling to page edges, one-time owner's signature on ffep, library donation label on front pastedown (no other library markings; specific library not identified); jacket shows light wear at extremities, some light soiling/foxing to front panel]. Story of "the captivating daughter of a highborn roué and a maid-in-waiting to the Queen of France. Buffeted by fortune, she led a life of extremes -- from poverty to wealth, high life to low life, joy to despair. Swept into the seething torrent of the French Revolution, she was cast into prison and in the shadow of the guillotine at last found love." The author (1876-1958), who was married to the English actor Dennis Cleugh, was the author of sixteen novels, some of which were published under the pseudonym George Oleson. She lived for a time in the U.S., where according to one source she "worked as a screenwriter for Universal Pictures"; I've found no recorded screen credits to back up this claim, although it's conceivable that she may have done that sort of work under another name as well. .