The Ripleys had been living in New York (and, for a time, Florence) but now Alexandra Ripley returned to Charleston. In 1958 she married Leonard Ripley, but they divorced in 1963. After university, she tried several jobs, including working in the advertising department of a magazine in New York and for an airline in Washington, DC. She was sent to Ashley Hall finishing school and then, on a scholarship, to Vassar college in New York State, where she studied Russian.
(Charleston was Butler's home town.) Her father, an insurance salesman, wanted her to be a Southern belle.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.She first read Gone With the Wind when she was 12 and later claimed that she used to sell directions to Rhett Butler's grave to naïve tourists. Readers Digest Condensed Book selection Literary Guild alternate.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E. Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat. The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam.
When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania.
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