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Lucie Levéque Ayres
Best known as the co-author of a historical drama about Jean Lafitte, this elusive writer survives in the record more through the work than through a well-documented public life. The scarcity of biographical detail gives her a certain mystery, while the play itself points to an interest in theatrical storytelling and history.
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Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts
by Lucile Rutland, Lucie Levéque Ayres
About the author
Lucie Levéque Ayres is credited as the joint author of Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts, a late-19th-century dramatic work written with Lucile Rutland. The play has remained accessible through major public-domain collections, which is the clearest confirmed trace of her literary career.
Reliable biographical information about her is very limited in the sources I could confirm. Project Gutenberg lists her as an author and notes the alias Rhoda Cameron, while library-style records for Lafitte also preserve her name as a co-author. Beyond that, details such as her dates, background, and broader body of work are not clearly documented in the sources I found.
That makes Ayres one of those authors known mainly through a surviving text rather than a full public biography. For readers, the appeal lies in that surviving work: a historical stage play centered on Jean Lafitte, suggesting a writer drawn to drama, atmosphere, and larger-than-life figures from the past.