Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson's Books and Stories

The Front Yard

Literature

5.0

The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Horace Chase

Literature

5.0

Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Jupiter Lights

Literature

5.0

Constance Fenimore Woolson was the great niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a close friend and correspondent of Henry James. A successful short story and novel writer Woolson was one of the "local color", or American literary regionalism authors popular in late-nineteenth century America. She travelled a great deal through America and Europe where she gathered material for her works. Woolson's stories focus on character, dialects, customs and landscape that are unique to a region. Her tales are often imbued with a sense of nostalgia for a world not yet in step with the modern world of development.

Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches

Literature

5.0

Though born in the Northeast and raised in the Midwest, Constance Fenimore Woolson (the grand-niece of renowned American author James Fenimore Cooper) spent many summers traveling in Florida and throughout the South. Woolson draws on her life experiences as an outsider in that often intensely insular culture to craft the insightful and sensitive stories and vignettes collected in Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches.

The Old Stone House

Literature

5.0

The niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a good friend and correspondent of Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson was a well known short story writer in the later part of the 19th century. Famous for her "local colour" stories, Woolson's work also touched on many similar themes to her contemporary Henry James, including the motif of the American expatriate in Europe. The Old Stone House was her first full-length publication.