Constance Fenimore Woolson, American author. Constance was a literary success from the earliest publications. Her works have been published in most fashionable magazines like Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Constance contributed to realistic genre called “local color”. In older years she suffered from depression, progressing deafness and influenza. Her death is a mystery (maybe suicide).
Background
Woolson, Constance Fenimore was born in March 1840 in Claremont, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Charles Jarvis and Hannah (Pomeroy) Woolson. Constance Fenimore Woolson traveled a lot with her family, that's why she developed special taste towards genre of travelling narrative, which became one of her specialties as author. She observed untamed land around Great Lakes to become one of US centers of development. Constance became very attentive to small cultural differences and it made her a good realist.
Education
Constance was getting big experience observing manners and life of different parts of America. She began writing already in school just for her own amusement. In New York city she studied in private and very prestigious boarding school. Graduate Madame Chegary’s School, New York City, 1858.
Career
Author for Scribner's, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's
Religion
Quote:
"His was not patriotism so-called, or rather miscalled, it was not sentimental fancy, it was not zeal or triumph; it was simply a sense of the fitness of things, a conscientiousness which had in it nothing of religion, unless indeed a man’s endeavor to live up to his own ideal of his duty be a religion." (Rodman the Keeper)
Politics
She tried to educate northern readers about real position in the South after the Civil War. Her position was neutral as soon as she wanted to be realist and show things as they were at the moment
Views
Freudism, in one of her later novels she describes problem of a lesbian author who couldn't create because this artist suppressed her lesbian self. Link between sexuality and creativity could be only from Freud.