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Lucie Levéque Ayres
Remembered today through a single surviving play, this elusive writer is tied to a dramatic retelling of the pirate Jean Lafitte’s world. The scarcity of biographical records only adds to the mystery around her name.
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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 a little-documented author whose work survives mainly through Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts, a historical drama associated with Jean Lafitte. Project Gutenberg lists her as a co-author of the play with Lucile Rutland, and also notes Rhoda Cameron as an alias connected with the work.
Because so little verified information about her life is readily available in major reference sources, most modern listings focus on that single play rather than on personal biography. That makes Ayres one of those writers known more by the trace they left on the page than by a fully recoverable life story.
For readers, that gives her work a certain curiosity: she appears as a faint but intriguing figure behind a theatrical piece shaped by adventure, conflict, and legend from the Gulf Coast past.