Word: duchesse
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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...
...Advocate appears to-morrow. It will contain the latest, most carefully revised critique of the Duchess Emilia...
Goods in stock: A line of tennis goods, (last year's most popular rackets at reduced prices). Spalding's and Mahn's base-balls, bats, dumb-bells, Indian clubs. Also in stock Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book "Duchess Emilia...
...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...
...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...