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Lucie Levéque Ayres

Best known as the co-author of a 1899 historical drama about Jean Lafitte, this little-documented writer appears in public records under both her own name and the alias Rhoda Cameron. Her surviving work hints at a lively interest in theatrical storytelling and New Orleans history.

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Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts

Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts

by Lucile Rutland, Lucie Levéque Ayres

About the author

Lucie Levéque Ayres is a hard-to-trace author whose surviving published record is slim, but clear on one important point: she co-authored Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts with Lucile Rutland. Project Gutenberg lists her as the author of that work and also notes an alias, Rhoda Cameron.

The play was originally copyrighted in 1899, and the Project Gutenberg text preserves the credit line naming Lucile Rutland and Rhoda Cameron, while also identifying the copyright holders as Lucile Rutland and Lucie Leveque Ayres (Rhoda Cameron). That strongly suggests Rhoda Cameron was a pen name used by Ayres.

Beyond that, reliable biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources I could confirm. What remains is a small but intriguing footprint: a collaborator on a late-19th-century historical drama centered on the legendary Jean Lafitte, and a writer whose identity survives partly through an alternate name.