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Carl Van Doren
(18851950).
The American Novel.
1921.
Page 248
Mrs. Catherwood during the years 18891894 forecast almost all the developments of the more fecund years from 18961902 which saw the most active school of historical romances the United States has produced. Merely to name the more successful performances of the period suffices to show in what fashion the romantic imagination then worked: Mark Twains
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
(1896), James Lane Allens
The Choir Invisible
(1897), Richard Harding Daviss
Soldiers of Fortune
(1897), S. Weir Mitchells
Hugh Wynne
(1897) and
The Adventures of Francois
(1898), Charles Majors
When Knighthood Was in Flower
(1898), Thomas Nelson Pages
Red Rock
(1898), Mary Johnstons
Prisoners of Hope
(1898) and
To Have and to Hold
(1899), F. Marion Crawfords
Via Crucis
(1898) and
In the Palace of the King
(1900), Paul Leicester Fords
Janice Meredith
(1899), Winston Churchills
Richard Carvel
(1899),
The Crisis
(1901), and
The Crossing
(1904), Booth Tarkingtons
Monsieur Beaucaire
(1900), Maurice Thompsons
Alice of Old Vincennes
(1900), Henry Harlands
The Cardinals Snuff-Box
(1901), George Barr McCutcheons
Graustark
(1901), Robert W. Chamberss
Cardigan
(1901), Mary Hartwell Catherwoods
Lazarre
(1901), Owen Wisters
The Virginian
(1902), Gertrude Athertons
The Conqueror
(1902), Ellen Glasgows
The Battleground
(1902) and
Deliverance
(1904), John Foxs
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
(1903). Mary E. Wilkins Freeman left her austere tales of rural New England to write a romance of the swashbuckling seventeenth century,
The Hearts Highway
(1900); Edward Bellamy similarly turned away from his forte in
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