Word: amelia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is clipped from the Boston Traveller of April 8: "Who is 'Barrett Wendell' "? people are asking, after reading "The Duchess Amelia," just published by Messrs. Osgood and Co. Miss Kate Field, who read this novel from advance proof sheets, and expressed great interest in it, surmises that "Barrett Wendell" is Marion Crawford, who has amused himself by bringing out a novel under a nom de plume...
...general effect produced by the book is thoroughly pleasing, and the story will easily take a foremost place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...
...Duchess Amelia" is the title of a novel which Mr. Barrett Wendell bas written, and which will be published by Osgood...
...August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen who engaged in the search for the bodies...
...surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers loved. If you think that we live in a state of society not as pure as that of a hundred years ago, read Richardson's "Clarissa," or Fielding's "Amelia," or "Tom Jones...