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Secondary Bibliography on Constance Fenimore Woolson

Baro, Gene. After Appomattox: The Image of the South in Its Fiction, 1865-1900. New York: Corinth Books, 1963.

Berthold, Dennis. "Miss Martha and Ms. Woolson: Persona in the Travel Sketches." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm. Detroit:Wayne State UP, 2001. 111-18.

Boren, Lynda S. "Constance Fenimore Woolson." American Realists and Naturalists. Eds. Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb) Number: 12: Gale, Detroit, MI Pagination: 456-63, 1982. xi, 486.

---. "'Dear Constance,' 'Dear Henry': The Woolson/James Affair- Fact, Fiction, or Fine Art?" Amerikastudien/American Studies 27.4 (1982): 457-66.

Boyd, Anne E. "Anticipating James, Anticipating Grief: Constance Fenimore Woolson's 'Miss Grief'." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 191-206, 2001. 255.

---. Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004.

Brehm, Victoria. "Castle Somewhere: Constance Fenimore Woolson's Reconstructed Great Lakes." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 99-110, 2001. 255.

---. Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2001.

---. "Island Fortresses: The Landscape of the Imagination in the Great Lakes Fiction of Constance Fenimore Woolson." American Literary Realism 22.3 (1990): 51-66.

Brehm, Victoria, and Sharon L. Dean. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories & Travel Narratives. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2004.

Brehm, Victoria, ed. Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 2001.

Buonomo, Leonardo. "Another Time, Another Place: Florence in the Writings of Margaret Fuller, Caroline Kirkland, and Constance Fenimore Woolson." The Poetics of Place: Florence Imagined. Eds. Irene Marchegiani Jones and Thomas Haeussler. Biblioteca Dell''Archivum Romanicum': Serie I: Storia, Letturatura, Paleografia (Bdar) Number: 292: Olschki, Florence, Italy Pagination: 99-123, 2001. xiii, 219.

---. "The Other Face of History in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Southern Stories." Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Américaines 28.3 (1998): 15-29.

Caccavari, Peter. "Exile, Depatriation, and Constance Fenimore Woolson's Traveling Regionalism." Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Ed. Susan L. Roberson: U of Missouri P, Columbia, MO Pagination: 19-37, 1998. vii, 291.

Castaldo, Denise M. "Negotiating the Power of a Woman's Passion: Constance Fenimore Woolson's Dialogues with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.3 (1999): 740.

Comment, Kristin M. "Lesbian 'Impossibilities' of Miss Grief's 'Armour'." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 207-23, 2001. 255.

Coulson, Victoria. "Teacups and Love Letters: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James." Henry James Review 26.1 (2005): 82-98.

Crumbley, Paul. "Haunting the House of Print: The Circulation of Disembodied Texts in 'Collected by a Valetudinarian' and 'Miss Grief'." American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard. Eds. Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer: U of Alabama P, Tuscaloosa, AL Pagination: 83-104, 2003. x, 295.

Dean, Sharon. "Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James: The Literary Relationship." Massachusetts Studies in English 7.3 (1980): 1-9.

Dean, Sharon L. Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton: Perspectives on Landscape and Art. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2002.

---. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homeward Bound. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995.

---. "Constance Woolson's Southern Sketches." Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 25.3 (1986): 274-83.

---. "Edith Wharton's Early Artist Stories and Constance Fenimore Woolson." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 225-39, 2001. 255.

---. "Homeward Bound: The Novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 6.2 (1989): 17-28.

Dean, Sharon L., and Gary W. Woolson. "Chronology of Constance Fenimore Woolson's Life." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 241-43, 2001. 255.

Diffley, Kathleen. "'Clean Forgotten': Woolson's Great Lakes Illustrated." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 119-39, 2001. 255.

Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth. To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.

Edwards, Mary P. "Constance Fenimore Woolson." American Short-Story Writers before 1880. Eds. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb) Number: 74: Gale, Detroit, MI Pagination: 365-70, 1988. 373.

Ewell, Barbara C., Pamela Glenn Menke, and Andrea Humphrey. Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race, and Gender. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Formichella Elsden, Annamaria. Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.

Gebhard, Ann Caroline. "The Invention of Female Authorship in Nineteenth Century America." Dissertation Abstracts International 53.1 (1992): 150A.

Gebhard, Caroline. "Romantic Love and Wife-Battering in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Jupiter Lights." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 83-91, 2001. 255.

Gingras, Robert. "'Hepzibah's Story': An Unpublished Work by Constance Fenimore Woolson." Resources for American Literary Study 10 (1980): 33-46.

Grasso, Linda. "'Thwarted Life, Mighty Hunger, Unfinished Work': The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women Writing in America." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.2 (1994): 97-118.

Gray, Janet, and C. W. E. Bigsby. She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the 19th Century. London: J.M. Dent, 1997.

Gray, Stella Clifford. "The Literary Achievement of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Dissertation Abstracts 17 (1957): 2009.

Grego, Edoarda. "Down South: 'Southern Races' and Southern Questions in Woolson's Fiction." Prospero: Rivista di Culture Anglo-Germaniche 9 (2002): 71-85.

---. "The Intrusive Landscape Designer: Recreating 'the Front Yard' in Assisi." Prospero: Rivista di culture anglo-germaniche 7 (2000): 85-105.

Hall, Carolyn. "An Elaborate Pretense for the Major: Making up the Face of the Postbellum Nation." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 22.2 (2005): 144-57.

Hardwick, Elizabeth. Anne. New York: Arno. 540 pp, 1977.

Harris, Sharon M. American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 221. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.

Helmick, Evelyn T. "Constance Fenimore Woolson: First Novelist of Florida." Carrell: Journal of the Friends of the University of Miami Library 10.2 (1969): 8-18.

Hubbell, Jay B. "Some New Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 14.4 (1941): 715-35.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Marie. "Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James: Friendship and Reflections." Dissertation Abstracts International 44.9 (1984): 2766A-67A.

Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon. "'We Are Most of Us Dead Down Here': Constance Fenimore Woolson's Travel Writing and the Reconstruction of Florida." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 141-59, 2001. 255.

Kern, John D. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Literary Pioneer. Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

Kitterman, Mary P. Edwards. "Henry James and the Artist-Heroine in the Tales of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World. Ed. Rhoda B. Nathan. Contribs. In Women's Studies Number: 69: Greenwood, Westport, CT Pagination: 45-59, 1986. 275.

Koppelman, Susan. "The Politics and Ethics of Literary Revival: A Test Case- Shall We, Ought We, Can We Make of Constance Fenimore Woolson a Kate Chopin?" Journal of American Culture 22.3 (1999): 1-9.

Kreiger, Georgia. "East Angels: Constance Fenimore Woolson's Revision of Henry James's the Portrait of a Lady." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 22.1 (2005): 18-29.

Lupold, Harry Forrest. "Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Genre of Regional Fiction." Ohioana Quarterly 29.4 (1986): 132-36.

Marchalonis, Shirley. Patrons and Protégées: Gender, Friendship, and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. The Douglass Series on Women's Lives and the Meaning of Gender. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Milledge, Luetta U. "Theme and Characterization in the Fiction of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1972): 5745A-.

Monteiro, George. "William Dean Howells: Two Mistaken Attributions." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 56 (1962): 254-57.

Moore, Rayburn S. Constance Fenimore Woolson. New York: Twayne, 1963.

---. "Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 3 (1968): 36-38.

---. "The Strange Irregular Rhythm of Life: James's Late Tales and Constance Woolson." South Atlantic Bulletin 41.4 (1976): 86-93.

Moore, Rayburn S. ed. For the Major and Selected Short Stories. New Haven, CT: College & University, 1967.

Pattee, Fred L. "Constance Fenimore Woolson and the South." South Atlantic Quarterly 38 (1939): 130-41.

Pearson, John H. "Constance Fenimore Woolson's Critique of Emersonian Aesthetics." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 51-65, 2001. 255.

Petry, Alice Hall. "'Always, Your Attached Friend': The Unpublished Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson to John and Clara Hay." Books at Brown 29-30 (1982): 11-107.

Pizer, Donald, and Earl N. Harbert. American Realists and Naturalists. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 12. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982.

Reich, Kathleen J. "The Woolson Caricatures." Studies in American Humor 3.9 (2002): 83-92.

Richardson, Lyon N. "Constance Fenimore Woolson, 'Novelist Laureate' of America." South Atlantic Quarterly 39 (1940): 18-36.

Roberson, Susan L. Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Ross, Donald, and James Schramer. American Travel Writers, 1850-1915. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 189. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1998.

Rowe, Anne E. "The Changing Northern Attitude toward the Post-Bellum South as Exemplified in the Writings of John De Forest, Albion Tourgee, Constance Woolson, and Lafcadio Hearn." Dissertation Abstracts International 34 (1973): 2653A(N.

Showalter, Elaine. Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Simms, L. Moody, Jr. "Constance Fenimore Woolson on Southern Literary Taste." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 22 (1969): 362-66.

Simpson, Claude M. The Local Colorists; American Short Stories, 1857-1900. New York: Harper, 1960.

Stephan, Peter Morris. "Comparative Value Systems in the Fiction of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 869A-70A.

Swett, Katherine. "Corinne Silenced: Improper Places in the Narrative Form of Constance Fenimore Woolson's East Angels." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 161-71, 2001. 255.

Swett, Katherine Barrett. "Improper Places: Scenery Fiction in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Constance Woolson, and Henry James." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.6 (1995): 2241A-42A.

Torsney, Cheryl B. Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Grief of Artistry. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1989.

---. Critical Essays on Constance Fenimore Woolson. Critical Essays on American Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

---. "Fern Leaves from Connie's Portfolio." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm: Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI Pagination: 173-88, 2001. 255.

---. "In Anticipation of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Woolson House." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2.2 (1985): 72-73.

---. "'Miss Grief' by Constance Fenimore Woolson." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 4.1 (1987): 11-25.

---. "The Strange Case of the Disappearing Woolson Memorabilia." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (1994): 143-51.

---. "The Traditions of Gender: Constance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James." Patrons and Protégées: Gender, Friendship, and Writing in Nineteenth- Century America. Ed. Shirley Marchalonis. The Douglass Series on Women's Lives and the Meaning of Gender: Rutgers UP, New Brunswick Pagination: 161- 83, 1994. xviii, 243.

---. "'Whenever I Open a Book and See 'Hoot, Mon,' I Always Close It Immediately': Constance Fenimore Woolson's Humor." Studies in American Humor 3.9 (2002): 69-81.

Tracey, Karen. "Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson: Greenwood, Westport, CT Pagination: 495-503, 1997. xiv, 534.

VanBergen, Carolyn J. "Legal Tender: The Search for a Just Social Economy in the Novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Dissertation Abstracts International 52.2 (1991): 541A.

Wadsworth, Sarah. "Constance Fenimore Woolson." American Travel Writers, 1850- 1915. Eds. Donald Ross and James J. Schramer. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb) Number: 189: Gale, Detroit, MI, 1998. 353-60

Weekes, Karen. "Northern Bias in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches." Southern Literary Journal 32.2 (2000): 102-.

Weimer, Joan Myers. "Women Artists as Exiles in the Fiction of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 3.2 (1986): 3-15.

Weir, Sybil B. "Southern Womanhood in the Novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 29 (1976): 559-68.

White, Robert L. "Cultural Ambivalence in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Italian Tales." Tennessee Studies in Literature 12 (1967): 121-29.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Victoria Brehm, and Sharon L. Dean. Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, and Joan Myers Weimer. Women Artists, Women Exiles: "Miss Grief" And Other Stories. The American Women Writers Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Youel, Barbara Kraley. "From Text to Hypertext: Constance Fenimore Woolson's 'Wilhelmina'." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.9 (2002): 3050-51.


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