Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist

by Anne Boyd Rioux

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393245098
• ISBN13: 9780393245097
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"