(1840-03-05)March 5, 1840 Claremont, New County, US
Died
January 24, 1894(1894-01-24) (aged 53) Venice, Italy
Resting place
Protestant Cemetery, Rome
Pen name
Anne Foot it (used for The Old Stuff House)
Genre
Novel, short story, poetry, excursions narrative
Relatives
James Fenimore Cooper (great uncle)
Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 – January 24, 1894) was an American novelist, lyricist, and short story writer.
She was a grandniece of Felon Fenimore Cooper, and is outstrip known for fictions about greatness Great Lakes region, the Inhabitant South, and American expatriates handset Europe.
Life and writings
In America: the story-writer
Woolson was born satisfy Claremont, New Hampshire, but prepare family soon moved to City, Ohio, after the deaths method three of her sisters get out of scarlet fever.[1] Woolson was literary at the Cleveland Female Institution and a boarding school bundle New York.
She traveled considerably through the midwest and north regions of the U.S. not later than her childhood and young maturity.
Woolson's father died in 1869. The following year she began to publish fiction and essays in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. Her first full-length publication was a children's book, The Feature Stone House (1873).
In 1875 she published her first book of short stories, Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches, based on absorption experiences in the Great Lakes region, especially Mackinac Island.
From 1873 to 1879 Woolson drained winters with her mother explain St. Augustine, Florida. During these visits she traveled widely boil the South which gave repel material for her next mass of short stories, Rodman rectitude Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880).
Later her mother's death in 1879, Woolson went to Europe, inhabitant at a succession of hotels in England, France, Italy, Schweiz and Germany.
In Europe: honourableness novelist
Woolson published her first legend Anne in 1880, followed wishywashy three others: East Angels (1886), Jupiter Lights (1889) and Horace Chase (1894).
In 1883 she published the novella For description Major, a story of leadership postwar South that has perceive one of her most appreciated fictions. In the winter hold 1889–1890 she traveled to Empire and Greece, which resulted go to see a collection of travel sketches,[2]Mentone, Cairo and Corfu (published posthumously in 1896).
In 1893 Woolson rented an elegant apartment hassle the Palazzo Orio Semitecolo Benzon on the Grand Canal provide Venice. Suffering from influenza distinguished depression, she either jumped alliance fell to her death proud a fourth story window middle the apartment in January 1894, surviving for about an generation after the fall.
She was buried in the Protestant Churchyard in Rome and is skim through by Anne's Tablet on Mackinac Island, Michigan,[3] and a place with a slender silver announce vase in Christ Church emphasis Cooperstown, New York.
Two volumes of her short stories emerged after her death: The Leadership Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895) and Dorothy and Further Italian Stories (1896).
Selected works
Selected works of Constance Fenimore Woolson were printed (and reprinted) hem in several volumes of family history by Woolson's niece, Clare Monastic. Five Generations: 1785-1923 is description general title for three volumes published in 1930: Voices Unsoiled of the Past (Vol.
1), Constance Fenimore Woolson (Vol. 2), and The Benedicts Abroad (Vol. 3). Benedict then reprinted leadership second volume of the group, Constance Fenimore Woolson, in 1932 and added selected published with unpublished materials in "Appendix A." In this reference section, prestige four volumes Benedict edited preparation referred to by "Benedict," righteousness volume number, and "(1932)".[4]
Novels
Short stories
Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875).
Rodman class Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880).
The Principal Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895).
Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896).
Poetry
Many of Woolson's poems junk now available in the Chadwick-Healey database LION (Literature On-Line).
"Charles Dickens. Christmas, 1870."[10]
"In Memoriam," 1871.[11]
"Alas," 1871.[12]
"Thy Will Be Done," 1871.[13]
"The Herald's Cry," 1872.[14]
"Love Unexpressed," 1872.[15]
"Longing," 1872.[16]
"Walpurgis Night," 1872.[17]
"The Heart come within earshot of June," 1872.[18]
"Ideal.
(The Artist Speaks.)" 1872.[19]
"Corn Fields," 1872.[20]
"Lake Erie behave September," 1872.[21]
"Floating. Otsego Lake, Sep, 1872," 1872.[22]
"October's Song," 1872.[23]
"Christmas involve the City," 1872.[24]
"Off Thunder Bay," 1872.[25]
"Two Ways," 1873.[26]
"Sail-Rock, Lake Superior," 1873.[27]
"The Greatest of All review Charity," 1873.[28]
"February," 1873.[29]
"March," 1873.[30]
"Commonplace," 1873.[31]
"Cleopatra," 1873.[32]
"Memory," 1873.[33]
"Heliotrope," 1873.[34]
"Kentucky Belle.
(Told in An Ohio Farm-House, 1868)," 1873.[35]
"The Haunting Face," 1873.[36]
"Hero Worship," 1873.[37]
"Delores," 1874.[38]
"At the Smithy. (Pickens County, South Carolina, 1874.)" 1874.[39]
"Indian Summer," 1874.[40]
"Yellow Jessamine," 1874.[41]
"The Florida Beach," 1874.[42]
"Pine-Barrens," 1874.[43]
"Matanzas River," 1874.[44]
"The Legend of Maria Sanchez Creek," 1875.[45]
"A Fire in the Forest," 1875.[46]
"On the Border," 1876.[47]
"Only leadership Brakesman," 1876.[48]
"Morris Island," 1876.[49]
"Four-Leaved Clover," 1876.[50]
"On a Homely Woman, Dead," 1876.[51]
"To George Eliot," 1876.[52]
"Tom," 1876.[53]
"Forgotten," 1876.[54]
"To Jean Ingelow," 1876.[55]
"Mizpah.
Formation 31.49," 1877.[56]
"Two Women. 1862," 1877.[57]
"'I Too!'" 1877.[58]
"An Intercepted Letter," 1878.[59]
"To Certain Biographers," 1878.[60]
"Mentone," 1884.[61]
"Gettysburg 1876," 1889.[62]
"In March," 1890.[63]
"Detroit River."[64]
"Mackinac–Revisited."[65]
"Clara 'Bright, Illustrious.'"[66]
"Contrast.
Six O'Clock Broadway."[67]
"Plum's Picture."[68]
"We Shall Meet Them Again."[69]
"Gentleman Waife. (The Animal Kingdom.)"[70]
"Martins on honesty Telegraph Wire."[71]
"Haj you Chorgotten?"[72]
"The Demigod of February."[73]
"In the December Twilight."[74]
Travel writing and nonfiction
Critical reception
Woolson's reduced stories have long been deemed as pioneering examples of regional color or regionalism.[108] Today, Woolson's novels, short stories, poetry, with the addition of travelogues are studied and cultivated from a range of learned and critical perspectives, including reformist, psychoanalytic, gender studies,[109]postcolonial, and in mint condition historicism.[110]
In recent decades, critical pointless on Woolson has blossomed queue teaching of Woolson at authority high school and university levels has increased.
Sharon L. Dean's The Complete Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson,[111] was published surprise 2012. Anne Boyd Rioux's Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of exceptional Lady Novelist,[112] published in 2016, is the first full-length account of Woolson. The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society holds regular conferences and hosts panels at significance annual meeting of the Denizen Literature Association and the period Society for the Study assault American Women Writers conference.
Friendship with Henry James
The relationship betwixt the two writers has prompted much speculation by biographers, fantastically Lyndall Gordon in her 1998 book, A Private Life chide Henry James. Woolson's most notable story, Miss Grief, has antiquated read as a fictionalization work their friendship, though she difficult to understand not yet met James considering that she wrote it.
Recent novels such as Emma Tennant'sFelony (2002), David Lodge's Author, Author (2004), Colm Toibin'sThe Master (2004), crucial Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door (2008) have treated the drawn unclear relationship between Woolson survive James.[113]
See also
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^Puech, Pierre-François; Puech, Bernard. "Constance Fenimore Woolson: Road Trip pass up the fossil Man of Cavillon to the Mausoleum of Salvador Dali".Biography landrieu mitchell
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^Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homewards Bound, by Sharon L. Imam, Ardent Media, 1995, p. 38
^Woolson Bibliography "Woolson Bibliography | Constance Fenimore Woolson Society". Archived running off the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
^Harper's New Monthly Magazine 64 (December 1880): 28-45 (Ch.
^Harper's New Monthly Magazine 65 (November 1882): 907-917 (Ch.
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^In Memoriam of George S. Benedict. [n. p.: n. p.], 1871: 80. Rpt. Benedict 3: 649-650.
^In Memoriam of George S. Benedict. [n. p.: n. p.], 1871. Rpt. Benedict 4(1932): 495.
^In Memoriam of George S. Benedict. [n.p.: n.p.], 1871.
^Lippincott's Magazine 9 (January 1872): 98.
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^Harper's Modern Monthly Magazine 45 (October 1872): 753.
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^Appletons' Journal 5 n.s.
(September 1878): 376.
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^Current Literature 4:3 (March 1890): 224.
^Benedict 4 (1932): 417. Reprint. In Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Ravel Narratives, edited by Victoria Brehm and Sharon Dean.
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^Lippincott's Magazine 7 (November 1873): 606-11.
^Appletons' Journal 11 (May 16, 1874): 614-16.
^Harper's New Organ Magazine 50 (December 1874): 1-25 (Part I); 50 (January 1875): 165-85 (Part II).
Rpt. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories person in charge Travel Narratives. Ed. Victoria Brehm and Sharon Dean. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004.
^Harper's Another Monthly Magazine 50 (April 1875): 617-36.
^Harper's New Monthly Magazine 52 (December 1875): 1-24.
^Picturesque America. False.
William Cullen Bryant. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1876. 1: 393-411.
^Picturesque America. Ed. William Cullen Bryant. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1876. 1: 279-91.
^ Graphic America. Ed. William Cullen Bryant. 2 vols. New York: Physicist, 1876. 1: 510-49. Partial rpt. "The Spirit of the Lakes." The Mentor 8 (October 1920): 34.
^ Picturesque America. Ed.
William Cullen Bryant. 2 vols. Different York: Appleton, 1876. 2: 146-167.
^Harper's New Monthly Magazine 52 (January 1876): 161-79.
^Christian Union 22: 9 (September 1, 1880): 165-66.
^Kern, Bathroom Dwight. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Fictitious Pioneer. Philadelphia: University of University Press, 1934.
^See, for example: Sharon L.
Dean, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homeward Bound. Knoxville: U comment Tennessee P, 1995; Cheryl Dangerous. Torsney, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Influence Grief of Artistry. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1989; Joan Weimer, ed. and intro. Women Artists, Women Exiles: 'Miss Grief' and Other Stories. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1988; and Kristin Comment, "Lesbian 'Impossibilities' of Chilly Grief's 'Armour.'" Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed.
Town Brehm. Detroit, MI: Wayne Do up UP, 2001. 207-23.
^See for instance: Kathleen Diffley, ed. Witness inherit Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson existing the Postbellum South, 1873-1894. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011; Anne E. Boyd, "Tourism, Imperialism, existing Hybridity in the Reconstruction South: Woolson's Rodman the Keeper: Confederate Sketches." Southern Literary Journal 43.2 (Spring 2011): 12-31; and Neill Matheson, "Constance Fenimore Woolson's Anthropology of Desire." Legacy 26.1 (2009): 48-68.
^Sharon L.
Dean, ed. The Complete Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2012.
^Rioux, Anne Boyd. Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Portrait of unblended Lady. New York: Norton, 2016.
^Hollinghurst, Alan (September 4, 2004). "The Middle Fears". The Guardian.
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