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Constance Fenimore Woolson

Born

in Claremont, New Hampshire, The United States

March 05, 1840

Died

January 24, 1894

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Henry James

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 – January 24, 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. 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.

Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but her family soon moved to Cleveland, Ohio, after the deaths of three of her sisters from scarlet fever. Woolson was educated at the Cleveland Female Seminary and a boarding school in New York. She traveled extensively through the midwest and northeastern regions of the U.S. during her childhood and young adulthood.

Woolson’s father died in 1869. The following year she began to publish fiction and essays in magazines s ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,006 ratings · 171 reviews · 206 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miss Grief and Other Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Colm Tóibín (Foreword), Anne Boyd Rioux (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anne 3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1880 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rodman the Keeper 3.30 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1876 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Margot Livesey (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1875 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	החצר הקדמית by Constance Fenimore Woolson, יותם בנשלום (translator) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Por el bien del comandante by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Julia Osuna Aguilar (Translator), Henry James (Contributor) 3.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1882 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felipa 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1876	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Grief 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jupiter Lights (1900) 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1889 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Constance Fenimore Woolson (?)

“For years of faithfulness even as a child are not thrown away, but yield . . . a strength at last in times of trial.”
― Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne

tags: faith, inspirational, trial

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“They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.”
― Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne

tags: courage, travel

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Polls

May Short Story/Novella Poll

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

31 votes, 27.7%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

22 votes, 19.6%

The Destructors by Graham Greene

17 votes, 15.2%

Tower of Babylon in Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang

13 votes, 11.6%

Arena by Fredric Brown

7 votes, 6.3%

The Escaped Cock by D.H. Lawrence

7 votes, 6.3%

Like a Winding Sheet by Ann Petry

5 votes, 4.5%

Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter

4 votes, 3.6%

The Ballerina and the Body by Alfred Döblin

4 votes, 3.6%

Felipa by Constance Fenimore Woolson

2 votes, 1.8%

112 total votes

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