![]() ![]() Learn more about Woolson’s fascinating life, and find out what makes her novel one we know you’ll want to read too. Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American Realist writer of renown in the 1870s-1890s, when she was one of the few women considered to be peers with their male counterparts. Woolson, a close friend of Henry James, is remembered as a salacious footnote in his story, yet upon its publication, her novel Anne sold ten times as many copies as James’s Portrait of a Lady. In this episode, Kim and Amy have a conversation about Constance Fenimore Woolson’s novel Anne (1880) with professor and author Anne Boyd Rioux, whose biography of Woolson was named one of 2016’s ten best books of the year by The Chicago Tribune. Set in Gracias a Dios, a little town lying half asleep on the southern coast of the United States. 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. ![]() ![]() WE'RE BACK WITH A NEW EPISODE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023. Constance Fenimore WoolsonNov 13rd, 2017 From the Publisher. Constance Fenimore Woolson (Ma January 24, 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. ![]()
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