Constance Fenimore Woolson Woolson Constance Fenimore
Constance Fenimore Woolson Woolson Constance Fenimore A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's…
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Constance Fenimore Woolson Woolson Constance Fenimore
A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writerIn the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his novel The Master. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and Willian Dean Howells.
But Woolson's close association with James, and her likely suicide in Venice, have tended to overshadow her own literary accomplishments, pigeonholing her as a martyr to the male literary