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Novel 329: Archie Armstrong, Under the Circumstances (1897)

May 10, 2025 David Bywaters

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, The Rendezvous


A young woman finds herself disinherited in favor of her guardian’s housekeeper.


Archie Armstrong (1859-1925), a journalist and editor, wrote one play, one story collection, and one novel, this one.

Armstrong “can tell a story very pleasantly, and has an instinct for a plot.” Academy, March 6, 1897

A “well-told story of to-day, written in good English.” Athenaeum, March 20, 1897

“Distinctly good”; the heroine is “very lifelike.” Spectator, October 9, 1897

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