Constance Fenimore Woolson, The Front Yard and other Italian Stories

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)

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First circulation or publication 1894

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Constance Fenimore Woolson's

The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories

was published posthumously, in 1895, but all the pieces included in the volume – “The Front Yard”, “Neptune's Shore”, “A Pink Villa”, “The Street of the Hyacinth”, “A Christmas Party” and “In Venice” – had previously appeared in prestigious literary journals such as

The Atlantic Monthly

and

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

. These stories, the result of the author's long residence in Italy in the last years of her life, have often been compared to the better-known “Italian” works of Woolson's friend Henry James. Only “The Street of the Hyacinth”, and “In Venice”, however, may be accurately described as “Jamesian” in their use of American characters in a European setting (the…

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Citation: Buonomo, Leonardo. "The Front Yard and other Italian Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=793, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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