Alice of Old Vincennes, written by Maurice Thompson in 1900, is a novel set in Vincennes during the American Revolutionary War.
Reception
The book was a popular best-seller. It was the tenth-highest best selling book in the United States in 1900, and the second best selling book in 1901 (bested only by The Crisis). It was listed as the best-selling book in the United States in six consecutive monthly issues of The Bookman, from January through June 1901 (tied with Eben Holden for two of those months).
Notes
- Thompson 1900.
- Hackett, Alice Payne (1967). Seventy years of best sellers, 1895-1965. pp. 96–97.
- "Popular Fiction of 1901". The Bookman. 14: 454–55. January 1902.
References
- Thompson, Maurice (1900). Alice of Old Vincennes. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company.
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