Higginson & Co. Mary Barrett Wendell (1883–1975), who married Geoffrey Manilus Wheelock. They divorced and she married Reinier van der Woude. William Greenough Wendell (1888–1967), who married Ruth Appleton, a daughter of Francis R. Appleton. They divorced in 1938 and he married Evelyn Fahnestock, a daughter of Ernest Fahnestock. Edith Wendell (1893–1963), who married publisher and Mayor of Auburn, New York Charles Devens Osborne in 1913. Wendell died in Boston on February 8, 1921. His widow died in Boston in October 1938. Descendants Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Reiner Garrit Anton van der Woude Jr., who married his second cousin, Lady Anne Penelope Herbert, a daughter of Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon and the former Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell (Wendell's niece). Selected works The Duchess Emilia: A romance, Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1885. Cotton Mather, the Puritan priest, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1891. English composition: Eight lectures given at the Lowell Institute, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Some neglected characteristics of the New England Puritans, 1892 William Shakespeare, a study in Elizabethan literature, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894. Rankell’s remains: An American novel, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896. A literary history of America, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901. Ralegh in Guiana, Rosamond, and a Christmas Masque, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902 (Boston: Merrymount Press) The France of today, New York: C. Scribner, 1907. The privileged classes, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908. The mystery of education, and other academic performances, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909. The traditions of European literature, from Homer to Dante, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920. See also Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe The Harvard Monthly References Further reading External links Barrett Wendell genealogy chart 1855 births 1921 deaths Members of the Harvard Board of Overseers Academic staff of the University of Paris Academics of the University of Cambridge The Harvard Lampoon alumni Harvard University faculty Harvard Crimson baseball coaches Harvard Crimson baseball players American academics of English literature