Constance Fenimore Woolson

Leonardo Buonomo (Universita degli studi di Trieste)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 5 Apr 1840
Died 24 Jan 1894
Activity 1860-1894

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States; England; France; Greece; Italy

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Woolson's Works

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Constance Fenimore Woolson, the sixth child of Charles Jarvis and Hannah Cooper Pomeroy Woolson and a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, was born on March 5, 1840 in Claremont, New Hampshire. Tragedy struck her family shortly after her birth when three of her sisters died from scarlet fever. Much in need of a new beginning, the Woolsons moved West, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where Constance grew up and attended Miss Hayden's School and Cleveland Female Seminary. She subsequently perfected her education at a well-known finishing school in New York City.

Exposed from an early age to a variety of panoramas and cultures - travelling through Ohio, Wisconsin, New England, and staying on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where the family spent the summer - Constance soon developed remarkable powers

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Citation: Buonomo, Leonardo. "Constance Fenimore Woolson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 March 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4802, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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