Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed
to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle
Archer of The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most
accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century.
The best known (and most misunderstood) facts of her life are
her relationship with James and her suicide in Venice. Uncovering
new sources, Anne Boyd Rioux provides a fuller picture
of Woolson’s life, her fight against depression, her sources for
her writing, and her capacity for love and joy. In her critically
acclaimed fiction, Woolson created compelling and subtle portrayals
of Americans from the Great Lakes, Reconstruction-era
South, and formerly Spanish Florida. As an expat in Europe,
she explored women’s thwarted ambitions while challenging
the foremost male writers of her era. Ultimately, Rioux reveals
an exceptionally gifted and committed artist who pursued (and
received) serious recognition despite the stigma attached to
female authors and to ambitious, single women.