Description: The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson's prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection's triptych.
Brief description: CAROLINE GEBHARD is professor emerita at Tuskegee University. She is a founding member of the Woolson Society and coeditor of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919.
Review Quotes: This volume is a timely, innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary array of organically arranged contributions that collectively highlight the contemporary relevance of Woolson's fiction.--Paola Gemme, professor of English, Arkansas Tech