Born: 5 March 1840, United States
Died: 24 January 1894
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Constance Fenimore Woolson, an American novelist, born in Claremont, N.H. She was a grandniece of James Feimore Cooper, as educated in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent the latter part of her life in Italy.
Her first literary work appeared in Harper’s Monthly in 1870, and here much of her subsequent writing was published. her important books are: The Old Stone House, East Angels, Jupiter Lights, Horace Chace, and The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories.
Edmund Clarence Stedman said of her: “No woman of rarer personal qualities, or with more decided gifts as a novelist, figured in her own generation of American writers.”