Smoking Flax (1897)

by Hallie Erminie Rives

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Hallie Erminie Rives (1876-1956) was an American author. She was a member of one of America's oldest families and the wife of a prominent American diplomat. She wrote The Modern and Complete Book of Etiquette (1939). As a novelist she wrote several best sellers, including: Smoking Flax (1897), A Furnace of Earth (1900), The Castaway (1904), In the Wake of War (1905) and Satan Sanderson (1907).… (more)

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Smoking Flax

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1897

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Hallie Erminie Rives (1876-1956) was an American author. She was a member of one of America's oldest families and the wife of a prominent American diplomat. She wrote The Modern and Complete Book of Etiquette (1939). As a novelist she wrote several best sellers, including: Smoking Flax (1897), A Furnace of Earth (1900), The Castaway (1904), In the Wake of War (1905) and Satan Sanderson (1907).

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A novel about an African-American man who is convicted of raping and murdering a white woman. He is lynched after the governor commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. The novel, published in 1897, was highly controversial, even at that time, for its favorable view of lynching.

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