Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson ( born March 5, 1840 in Claremont, New Hampshire; † January 24, 1894 in Venice) was an American writer.

Life

The great-niece of James Fenimore Cooper twisted with her parents early to Cleveland, where he received first her schooling at the Young Ladies' Seminary and later at Madame Chegary 's French School in New York City.

After the death of her father in 1869 she began her literary debut in 1873 and settled with her mother in Florida down to 1879. After her mother also died in 1879, she emigrated to England. There she first wrote articles for magazines before them in the following years, several novels published as Anne (1882 ), For the Major (1883 ), East Angels ( 1886), Rodman the Keeper (1886 ) and Castle Nowhere: Lake - Country Sketches ( 1886).

Only six years after her death, she was nominated for a 1900 induction into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the U.S. Hall of Fame in New York City.