Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) is remembered for work that demonstrates an authoritative sense of place. No matter where she was, in the United State or in Europe, where she lived later in life, she wrote from the point of view of the outsider discerning local mores and in that sense mirrored her close friend Henry James. Indeed, her work was often in conversation with his, and her story “In Sloane Street” not only parodied the narrator of James’s “The Lesson of the Master” but also offered a feminist view of marriage and artistic success. A grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, she was born in New Hampshire and raised in Ohio. Memorable work includes the collection Miss Grief and Other Stories and the novella For the Major.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- In Sloane Street, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2020–2021
- Miss Grief, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2020–2021