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Critical Essay by Henry James

4,497 words, approx. 15 pages

In the essay that follows, James evaluates Woolson's writing as possessed by "a spirit singularly and essentially conservative," opposed to the entrance of women into public life.... Read more

Critical Essay by Cheryl B. Torsney

6,413 words, approx. 22 pages

In the essay that follows, Torsney compares Woolson 's first novel Anne with Henry James 's Portrait of a Lady, and contends that Woolson "adapted her literary inheritance from th... Read more

Critical Essay by Victoria Brehm

7,208 words, approx. 25 pages

In the following essay, Brehm contests the idea that Woolson is either "a failed realist or a failed sentimentalist" and argues that Woolson's writing reflects her own conflicts a... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Caccavari

8,279 words, approx. 28 pages

In the following essay, Caccavari examines Woolson 's attempt at being a "writer in exile" and her simultaneous yearning for homecoming. In a letter she wrote as a young girl to a... Read more

Critical Essay by Arthur Hobson Quinn

4,270 words, approx. 15 pages

In the following excerpt, Quinn discusses Woolson 's ability to blend vibrant descriptions of physical settings with the actions of realistic characters. Usually a novelist's impulse to ... Read more

Critical Essay by Alexander Cowie

5,582 words, approx. 19 pages

In the following essay, Cowie studies Woolson's five novels and argues that their principal qualities are simplicity of plot, realism of character and dialogue, and precision of description. An... Read more

Critical Essay by Rayburn S. Moore

4,823 words, approx. 17 pages

In the essay that follows, Moore discusses Woolson's first collection of short stories and examines its increasingly sophisticated character development. Constance Woolson's first contri... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert L. White

3,776 words, approx. 13 pages

In the following essay, White considers Woolson 's letters and short stories as expressions of American ambivalence toward "the foreign " in general and Italy in particular. Until... Read more

Critical Essay by Rayburn S. Moore

6,111 words, approx. 21 pages

In the essay that follows, Moore provides a general introduction to Woolson's short stories. I In her own day Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was popular with both public and critics. Ma... Read more

Critical Essay by Sharon L. Dean

4,667 words, approx. 16 pages

In the following essay, Dean praises Woolson 's sensitivity to the complex position of women in the South which is evident through her fictional accounts of Southern society during Reconstructi... Read more

Critical Essay by Joan Myers Weimer

8,263 words, approx. 28 pages

In the essay that follows, Weimer studies Woolson 's reflections on the extent to which "women artists … are ultimately exiled from their own art." American women starting ... Read more

Critical Essay by Sharon L. Dean

7,948 words, approx. 27 pages

In the following essay, Dean explores the idea of independence which is developed in Woolson's later novels. When Henry James wrote his generally favorable review of Constance Woolson in the Fe... Read more