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Title
  • Miss Grief and other stories / Constance Fenimore Woolson ; edited by Anne Boyd Rioux ; foreword by Colm Tóibín.
Author
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894,
Publication
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Rioux, Anne Boyd
  • Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Description
xxxvi, 309 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories. Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson's life, including "In Sloane Street," never published since it first appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Woolson's stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and England. Her strong characters and indelible settings provide continuity throughout this collection as do her concerns with passion, creativity, imagination, and the demands of society. Whether portraying the keeper of a Union soldiers' cemetery in the defeated South, a woman writer whose genius goes unrecognized, or the ex-pat denizens of Florence, Woolson's deft characterization and subtlety create a broad landscape of Americans and their ways no matter where they lived" --
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Miss Grief.
  • Short stories.
Subject
  • Americans > England > Fiction
  • Americans > Italy > Fiction
  • Americans
  • England
  • Italy
  • Middle West
  • Middle West > Fiction
  • Southern States
  • Southern States > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Short stories
  • Short stories.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
St. Clair Flats -- Solomon -- Rodman the Keeper -- Sister St. Luke -- "Miss Grief" -- A Florentine Experiment -- In Sloane Street.
ISBN
  • 9780393352009
  • 0393352005
LCCN
^^2015043304
OCLC
909974444
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library