Miss Grief and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393352009)

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson's life, including "In Sloane Street," never published since it first appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Woolson's stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and England. Her strong characters and indelible settings provide continuity throughout this collection as do her concerns with passion, creativity, imagination, and the demands of society. Whether portraying the keeper of a Union soldiers' cemetery in the defeated South, a woman writer whose genius goes unrecognized, or the ex-pat denizens of Florence, Woolson's deft characterization and subtlety create a broad landscape of Americans and their ways no matter where they lived.

Author: Constance Fenimore Woolson
ISBN-10: 0393352005
ISBN-13: 9780393352009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2016 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 03/06/2016 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 03/08/2016