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Miss Grief and Other Stories

Anne Boyd Rioux

4/5 ( ratings)

Constance Fenimore Woolson 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.

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: February 29, 2016

ISBN: 0393352005

ISBN 13: 9780393352009

Miss Grief and Other Stories

Anne Boyd Rioux

4/5 ( ratings)

Constance Fenimore Woolson 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.

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: February 29, 2016

ISBN: 0393352005

ISBN 13: 9780393352009

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