The stories also are enjoyable - even to the modern reader - and often poignant. The stories are so rich in sense of place, time, and people that they function as windows to a distinct era long past. Immediately, I was taken with Woolson's keen perceptions of local mores, her descriptions of Florida, and her respectful handling of colorful locals whom lesser writers might have disparaged.
I began with her short-story collection Rodman the Keeper because of its Southern focus.
Thanks to his introduction, I started to explore her literature. He's part of a group of scholars who have published on Woolson and have worked to rebuild her literary reputation. John Pearson, now AVP of Academic Affairs, at Stetson University. I became aware of Woolson via English professor Dr. She's hardly known anymore, although her reputation is on the upswing again. She was a lauded and popular writer of both fiction and nonfiction - travel articles, stories, and novels.
It's probably safe to say that literate Florida pioneer settlers read Woolson's works or were aware of her. Augustine for several years in the 1870s, and set some of her short stories and at least one of her novels, the mid-1880s East Angels, in Florida. Anne Boyd Rioux's Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of A Lady Novelist (Norton, 2016) covers an entire life, but it was Woolson's Southern sojourns that most interested me. She wintered in St. I just read the excellent new biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, an under-appreciated 19th century writer.
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