Buried in “Old Cemetery” Weston MA served in King Philip’s War, Mt. *** FAMILY TREE OF CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON*** Miss Woolson: from Partial Portraits, 1894, by Henry James Her other works include Castle Nowhere Lake Country Sketches Two Women, a poem Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches Anne For the Major East Angels Jupiter Lights The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu and The Old Stone House.Ĭonstance Fenimore Woolson and Henry James in Venice Horace Chase is considered her best novel. He used the gondolier’s pole to beat them down into the water, but they kept rising to the surface.” Sitting beside the pile he had the gondolier row out to the middle of the lagoon, where, one by one, he cast them into the water. It was also is job to dispose of the scores of black silk and black taffeta gowns she had bought. James most wanted to find and destroy any of his letters she had kept, which he did-none are extant. It seems she was a shopper on par with Imelda Marcos. Some sources state she committed suicide.Īccording to one source: “ Henry James came to her house in Venice to help Constance’s sister sort through her many possessions. She died in Venice Italy under suspicious circumstances, apparently falling from a balcony. Near the end of her life she experienced a serious illness (one source states she had a long bout of influenza). While in Europe she became friends with Henry James. Starting in 1879 she resided in Europe, living in lived in various European cities, including Venice, Florence, Rome, London, Warwickshire, Cheltenham, Oxford, cities in Switzerland and in the Black Forest region of Germany. During this time she wrote travel sketches and regional stories for periodicals of the time. Excelling in writing, she began to publish her works starting about 1870. After her father died in 1869, Constance traveled with her mother to various locations in the eastern and southern United States, including spending time in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Ohio. She worked in local hospitals during the Civil War. When she was young her family moved to Cleveland, where she grew up, and attended the Cleveland Female Seminary and afterwards Madame Chegaray’s School in New York City (this school was later known as Hunter College). Her stories and novels are particularly notable for evoking a sense of place.
She wrote short stories, novels, and poetry, sometimes under the alias of Anne March. She died January 24, 1894, in Venice, Italy. … probably the mystery will never be solved.Ĭonstance Fenimore Woolson, a grand-niece of author James Fenimore Cooper through her paternal grandmother, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire on March 5, 1840. Did she commit suicide, or did she simply lose her balance on a Venetian balcony?
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