Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
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One of many popular local-color writers, Constance Fenimore Woolson, grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper, is best remembered for her short stories, although her good friend Henry James regarded her as a novelist. She was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but grew up in the expanding midwestern visa mer town of Cleveland. She enjoyed traveling both in the United States and Europe, and many of her stories are set in the places she visited. Summers spent at Mackinac Island in the Great Lakes region provided background for the stories in Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875). Her first novel, Anne (1882), serialized in Harper's, is a melodramatic story of a love affair and a murder trial. After the Civil War, Woolson traveled throughout the South, writing Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), stories sympathetic to Southern families in the Reconstruction era; For the Major (1883), about a Civil War veteran; and East Angels (1886), showing a reconciliation between wealthy Northern industrialists and poor Southern aristocrats. In 1879 she moved to Europe, where she continued to write stories and travel sketches, many of which are about Americans abroad. Although her works have been neglected, she is well regarded, especially for her keen observation and her treatment of her female characters. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) Birth date note: Per the old book "A Woman of the Century", birth date is listed as 1848. Per the website "A Celebration of Women Writers", birth date is listed as 1840.
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Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- March, Anne
- Födelsedag
- 1840-03-05
- Avled
- 1894-01-24
- Begravningsplats
- The Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Claremont, New Hampshire, USA
- Dödsort
- Venice, Italy
- Bostadsorter
- Claremont, New Hampshire, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Venice, Italy - Utbildning
- Miss Hayden’s School
Cleveland Female Seminary - Yrken
- travel writer
short story writer
novelist - Relationer
- Cooper, James Fenimore (great-uncle)
James, Henry (friend)
Benedict, Clare (niece & biographer) - Kort biografi
- Constance Fenimore Woolson was a bestselling author of her day. Her relationship with Henry James has been the subject of speculation for biographers and novelists. She was born in the village of Claremont, New Hampshire; her mother was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper. Within a month of her birth, three of her five elder sisters died of scarlet fever. The family was left with a brooding depressiveness that haunted them all their lives. They moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Constance attended the Cleveland Female Seminary and then a boarding school in New York. She began writing as a child but did not begin publishing until age 30, when her stories, essays, and sketches met with immediate success in major magazines of the time, including Harper’s, Scribner’s, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her work was marked by the realism that took hold in American literature during the second half of the 19th century. Besides depression, she suffered from early-onset deafness that was interpreted by others as coldness and contributed to her insecurity and feelings of isolation. Her most famous short story, "Miss Grief," published in Lippincott’s Magazine in May 1880, demonstrated the complexities of the life of a woman writer of her time. Her first full-length story was The Old Stone House, a children's book that appeared in 1873 under the pseudonym Anne March. She published the first of several novels, Anne, in 1880. Following the death of her parents, she became financially independent and felt able to travel. In Florence, she met Henry James and they began a friendship that lasted for the next 14 years as they wandered around Europe together and separately. In 1894, at age 53, she either jumped or fell to her death from the window of an apartment overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice.
- Särskiljningsnotis
- Birth date note: Per the old book "A Woman of the Century", birth date is listed as 1848. Per the website "A Celebration of Women Writers", birth date is listed as 1840.
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- 34
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- 10
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- #72,116
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East Angels is about love and secrets and bad choices. There is a young girl, Garda, who is the focus of the first half of the book. As she grows up, her love interests are the focus of the book. In the second half, the interest sort of shifts to a slightly older woman who is Garda's guardian and we get to hear her back story and follow whether she'll end up happy or remain in her frustrating marriage.
The plot is pretty weak. And the characters, especially the secondary characters, are stereotypical and not particularly developed. The one thing that I still enjoyed in this book is the setting and nature writing. This takes place in Florida, I think in the St. Augustine area, and Woolson really evokes the setting well and incorporates the setting into the plot. This saved the book for me.
I hate writing a negative review about a lesser-known woman author, especially when I loved the first book I read by her, but I wouldn't really recommend reading this as an example of Woolson's work. I will give her another try since I've been split on the two novels that I've read by her.… (mer)