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Since originally leaving the country Mrs Prince has been busy with her clever pen, and a number of her works under the name of Helen Choate Prince have been the result. Mrs Prince, who was born in Dorchester in lfel7. and married in 1881, ranks today among the best of the American novelists. Her first work was "The Sign of the Sliver Crescent," which was followed by "The DR ABBOTT AT OF Story of Christine Rochefort." Then came "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," and it was in October of 1902 that her latest novel. "The Strongest Master." was published.
This work is considered by many her best. Mrs Prince. being a granddaughter of Rufus Choate. surely inherits a wonderful amount From Boston globe on Newspapers dot com (OCR text, with errors, sorry)
Since originally leaving the country Mrs Prince has been busy with her clever pen, and a number of her works under the name of Helen Choate Prince have been the result. Mrs Prince, who was born in Dorchester in lfel7. and married in 1881, ranks today among the best of the American novelists. Her first work was "The Sign of the Sliver Crescent," which was followed by "The DR ABBOTT AT OF Story of Christine Rochefort." Then came "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," and it was in October of 1902 that her latest novel. "The Strongest Master." was published.
This work is considered by many her best. Mrs Prince. being a granddaughter of Rufus Choate. surely inherits a wonderful amount of his literary ability and keen wit. His dramatic quality fed on romantic literature such as the novels of Sir Walter Scott.
a writer whom he greatly admired. In the third generation, ccnsequently, the Boston young woman was brought up like girls of her set. passed into marriarge and residence in France, where she has.,resided just outside of Paris for the past decade or so. Mrs Prince bears in her brain the inheritance developed amid graceful conditions and strengthened and enlivened by stimulating surroundings. which results in a delight to her hundreds of readers.
Her novels have not only been sketches of character, bright repartee, epigrams and efforts to analyze insignificant facts. She writes with an old-fashioned motifnot moral. Mrs Prince brings the American and French types which she so thoroughly understands into play in most interesting contrasts. Her Americans are only Euroneans of the 'corresponding class Her French people are tile worthy chateaux eoferie, pure and dignified members of their church. She....more