Constance Fenimore Woolson
Constance Fenimore Woolson (born March 5, 1840 in Claremont , New Hampshire , † January 24, 1894 in Venice ) was an American writer .
Life
James Fenimore Cooper's great-niece moved to Cleveland with her parents at an early age , where she initially received her schooling at Young Ladies' Seminary and later at Madame Chegary's French School in New York City .
After the death of her father, she began her writing debut in 1869 and settled in Florida with her mother until 1879 in 1873 . After her mother died in 1879, she emigrated to England. There she initially wrote articles for magazines before publishing several novels in the following years such as Anne (1882), For the Major (1883), East Angels (1886), Rodman the Keeper (1886) and Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1886).
Fenimore Woolson was a friend and patron of the writer Henry James . Biographies of literary history speculate whether she suffered from James' detachment, who described himself as "sexual self-sufficient". It is also not clear whether her death was an accident or whether she, tormented by depression, committed suicide. She fell from the window of her fourth floor apartment in Venice.
Just six years after her death, in 1900 she was nominated for induction into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans , the American hall of fame in New York City.
Works translated into German
- Constance Fenimore Woolson: Miss Kummer / Miss Grief . Bilingual edition: German / English. Calambac Verlag, Saarbrücken [2019], ISBN 978-3-943117-03-5
literature
- Anne Boyd Rioux: Constance Fenimore Woolson: portrait of a lady novelist . WW Norton and Company, New York / London: [2016], ISBN 978-0-393-24509-7
- Woolson, Constance . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 6 : Sunderland - Zurita . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1889, p. 611 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Web presence of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woolson, Constance Fenimore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Claremont , New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1894 |
| Place of death | Venice |