Constance Fenimore Woolson crafted narratives deeply rooted in the regional colors of the American Midwest and South before turning her attention to the lives of American expatriates in Europe. Her distinctive style and profound interest in character psychology remained consistent throughout her literary career. Woolson's short stories are celebrated as pioneering works of American regionalism, while her novels and essays continue to be studied today through diverse critical lenses, including feminist and postcolonial perspectives.
Set in the idyllic landscape of Prince Edward Island, this novel follows the spirited orphan Anne Shirley as she navigates the challenges of her new life with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. With her vivid imagination and fiery personality, Anne transforms the lives of those around her while facing trials of friendship, identity, and belonging. The story beautifully explores themes of love, resilience, and the power of dreams, making it a timeless tale of growth and self-discovery.
"A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writer. In the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and William Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his novel The Master. But Woolson's close association with James, and her likely suicide in Venice, have tended to overshadow her own literary accomplishments, pigeonholing her as a martyr to the male literary establishment. This volume, the most comprehensive gathering of Woolson's stories to date, represents the culmination of decades of recovery work done by scholars, and puts the focus back on the work, where it belongs. Set variously in the Great Lakes region, the post-Civil War South, and Europe, Woolson's short stories often concern outsiders of one kind or another-prophets and misfits living in remote landscapes, uneducated coal miners, impoverished spinsters, neglected nuns, a haunted caretaker of the dead, destitute southerners, and female artists driven to extreme behavior as they seek the admiration or approval of established (male) critics or writers. Woolson's minute realism captures both the social texture of her time and the inner emotional lives of these overlooked and marginalized characters. Most of all her writings startle us with their simmering intensity, their sensual descriptions of the environment, and refusal to smooth out the ambiguities and tensions that inevitably result from human efforts to communicate and connect. Her fiction is deeply human, resonating with a power across the centuries that makes them remarkably modern for today's readers."-- Provided by publisher
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Bevor sie Henry James kennenlernte, schrieb Constance Fenimore Woolson eine ihrer rätselhaftesten Erzählungen, Fräulein Kummer, die in Rom spielt und in der sie die Begegnung zwischen einem Doppelgänger Henry James', einem jungen, selbstgefälligen Schriftsteller und einem Abbild ihrer selbst als verarmte und so talentierte wie verkannte Autorin, literarisch vorwegnahm. Fräulein Kummer ist eine erschütternde Lektüre, die vorausschauend das tragische Ende Woolsons erzählt.