Anne Boyd Rioux – Constance Fenimore Woolson- Portrait of a Lady Novelist (retail) (epub)
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Name: Anne Boyd Rioux – Constance Fenimore Woolson- Portrait of a Lady Novelist (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.91 MB
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Title: Constance Fenimore Woolson
Author: Anne Boyd Rioux
Language: English
Year: 2016
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9788366003118
Total pages: 60 str.
Description:
"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!"?Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century. Yet today the best-known (and most-misunderstood) facts of her life are her relationship with James and her probable suicide in Venice. This first full-length biography of Woolson provides a fuller picture that reaffirms her literary stature.
Uncovering new sources, Anne Boyd Rioux evokes Woolson’s dramatic life. She was a grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper and was born in New Hampshire, but her family’s ill fortunes drove them west to Cleveland. Raised to be a conventional woman,…
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