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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. Anne Boyd Rioux uncovered new sources in writing this first full-length biography that evokes Woolson's dramatic life and reaffirms her literary stature. A grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper, Woolson was born in New Hampshire, but her…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2020Library of America, The · 750 pages · 9781598536508
- Other · English · 2016Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 432 pages · 9780393245103
- Other · English · 2016W.W. Norton & Company · 391 pages · 9780393245097
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