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Barrett Wendell , 1855-1921, American teacher and scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1877. He taught at Harvard (1880-1917) and lectured at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. Among his works are a study of Cotton Mather (1891) and A Literary History of America (1900), the outgrowth of the first course in the subject at Harvard.

Bibliography: See M. A. De W. Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters (1924).

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Wendell, Barrett (1855–1921), professor of English at Harvard (1880–1917), was known both for his teaching and scholarship and as an early instructor in American literature. His works include a biography of Cotton Mather (1891), a critical study, William Shakespere (1894), A Literary History of America (1900), and The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature (1904).

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