5 March 1840 – 24 Jan. 1894
Image Information:
Photographer: Unknown Date: Occasion: placed near select chapters of Woolson’s East Angels printed in Harper’s Source: “CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 72.430 (March 1886): 559. Permissions: public domain
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Pertinent Archives:
Minnesota Historical Society, Archives and Manuscripts (correspondence with William Crowell Edgar and Family) (http://www.mnhs.org/collections/)
Trinity College, Watkinson Library (letters from Charles Dudley Warner) (http://library.trincoll.edu/research/watk/)
Western Reserve Historical Society (letters to Samuel Mather and Family) (http://www.wrhs.org/)
Legacy References:
Berthold, Dennis. “Review of ed. Cheryl Torsney’s Critical Essays on Constance Fenimore Woolson.” Legacy 11.2 (1994): 176.
Carr, Felicia L. “Review of Anne E. Boyd’s Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America.” Legacy 22.2 (2005): 199. [LION]
Dean, Sharon L. “Review of Cheryl Torsney’s Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Grief of Artistry.” Legacy 8.1 (1991): 64-65.
Dean, Sharon L. “Homeward Bound: The Novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” Legacy 6.2 (1989): 17-28.
Elbert, Monika. “Review of Naomi Z. Sofer’s Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and NineteenthCentury Women Writers and Susan S. Williams’s Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900.” Legacy 24.1 (2007): 135-37. [LION]
Hall, Carolyn. “An Elaborate Pretense for the Major: Making up the Face of the Postbellum Nation.” Legacy 22.2 (2005): 146-57. [LION]
Healey, Christina. “The Antiquary and Literary Criticism in the Short Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” Legacy 29.2 (2012): 222-239.
Kier, Kathleen. “Review of Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Women Artists, Women Exiles: “Mis Grief” and Other Stories.” Legacy 7.1 (1990): 70-71.
Kreiger, Georgia. “East Angels: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s revision of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady.” Legacy 22.1 (2005): 18-29. [LION]
Logan, Lisa M. “Review of ed. Susan L. Roberson’s Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation.” Legacy 17.1 (2000): 111-12. [GW] [LION]
Matheson, Neill. “Woolson’s Anthropology of Desire.” Legacy 26.1 (2009): 48-68. [MUSE] [GW] [LION]
Rodier, Katharine. “Review of Caroline Field Levander’s Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.” Legacy 16.2 (1999): 205. [GW] [LION]
Torsney, Cheryl B. “‘Miss Grief’ by Constance Fenimore Woolson: Introduction.” Legacy 4.1 (1987): 11-13.
Torsney, Cheryl B. “The Strange Case of the Disappearing Woolson Memorabilia.” Legacy 11.2 (1994): 143-51.
Torsney, Cheryl B. “In Anticipation of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Woolson House.” Legacy 2.2 (1985): 72-73.
Voeller, Carey R. “Review of Annamaria Formichella Elsden’s Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing.” Legacy 25.1 (2008): 170-71. [LION]
Weimer, Joan Myers. “Review of ed. Victoria Brehm’s Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth Century: Essays.” Legacy 20.1 (2003): 201. [GW] [LION]
Weimer, Joan Myers. “Women Artists as Exiles in the Fiction of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” Legacy 3.2 (1986): 3-15.
Woolson, Constance Fenimore. Legacy Reprint: “Miss Grief.” [Lippincott’s Magazine, May 1880] Legacy 4.1 (1987): 13-25.
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