Today, Woolson's novels, short stories, poetry, and travelogues are studied and taught from a range of scholarly and critical perspectives, including feminist, psychoanalytic, gender studies, postcolonial, and new historicism.Īnne was Constance Fenimore Woolson's first novel and it made the author famous during her time. Woolson’s short stories have long been regarded as pioneering examples of local color or regionalism. She is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, and is memorialized by Anne's Tablet on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Two volumes of her short stories appeared after her death: The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895) and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896). Suffering from influenza and depression, she either jumped or fell to her death from a window in the apartment in January 1894. In 1893 Woolson rented an elegant apartment on the Grand Canal of Venice. In the winter of 1889–1890 she traveled to Egypt and Greece, which resulted in a collection of travel sketches, Mentone, Cairo and Corfu (published posthumously in 1896). In 1883 she published the novella For the Major, a story of the postwar South that has become one of her most respected fictions. Woolson published her first novel Anne in 1880, followed by three others: East Angels (1886), Jupiter Lights (1889) and Horace Chase (1894). After her mother’s death in 1879, Woolson went to Europe, staying at a succession of hotels in England, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. During these visits she traveled widely in the South which gave her material for her next collection of short stories, Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880).

In 1875 she published her first volume of short stories, Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches, based on her experiences in the Great Lakes region, especially Mackinac Island.įrom 1873 to 1879 Woolson spent winters with her mother in St. Her first full-length publication was a children’s book, The Old Stone House (1873).

The following year she began to publish fiction and essays in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. during her childhood and young adulthood. She traveled extensively through the midwest and northeastern regions of the U.S. Woolson was educated at the Cleveland Female Seminary and a boarding school in New York. Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but her family soon moved to Cleveland, Ohio, after the deaths of three of her sisters from scarlet fever.

She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe. Constance Fenimore Woolson (Ma– January 24, 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer.

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