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11. Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux
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AMY HELMES [CO-HOST]: What if I were to tell you that there’s a 19th-century American novel that combines the sweetness of Little Women, the adventure of Great Expectations, the heroine of Jane Eyre, the social drama of Age of Innocence and the mystery of a Sherlock Holmes tale?
KIM ASKEW [CO-HOST]: I’d say, “Whoa, that sounds incredible.” I’d also say it also sounds like the plot of a little-known novel called Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson.
AMY: Get ready, everybody, for some serious fan-girl gushing on this episode of Lost Ladies of Lit, because this book totally blew our minds.
KIM: Yeah, Amy, had you even heard of Woolson before we started researching authors for the podcast?
AMY: Not at all, no, but I did think that her name sounded pretty familiar: “Fenimore,” as in James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote The Last of the Mohicans. But I know you had heard of this author, right?
KIM:I had heard of her, but only as a little footnote to the bio of her friend, Henry James. I wrote my master’s thesis on his novel Wings of a Dove.
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Constance Fenimore Woolson
RODMAN THE KEEPER*
"Keeper of what? Keeper of the dead. Well, it is easier to keep the dead than the living; and as for the gloom of the thing, the living among whom I have been lately were not a hilarious set."
John Rodman sat in the door-way and looked out over his domain. The little cottage behind him was empty of life save himself alone. The last rim of the sun's red ball had sunk below the horizon line, and the western sky glowed with deep rose-color, which faded away above into pink, into the salmon-tint, into shades of that far-away heavenly emerald which the brush of the earthly artist can never reproduce, but which is found sometimes in the iridescent heart of the opal. The small town, a mile distant, stood turning its back on the cemetery; but the keeper could see the pleasant, rambling old mansions each with its rose-garden and neglected outlying fields, the empty negro quarters falling into ruin, and everything just as it stood when on that April morning the first gun was fired on Sumter; apparently not a nail added, not a brushful of paint applied, not a fallen brick replaced, or latch or lock repaired. The keeper had noted these things as he strolled through the town, but not with surprise; for he had seen the S
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EAST ANGELS
A Novel
BY
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
AUTHOR Stencil "ANNE" "FOR THE MAJOR" ETC.
NEW YORK
Harpist & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
| CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON'S WORKS. | |
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EAST ANGELS. A New. 16mo, | CASTLE NOWHERE. Lake Country |
ANNE. A Newfangled. Illustrated. pp iv., | |
FOR Interpretation MAJOR. A Novelette. Illustrated. | RODMAN Interpretation KEEPER. Southern |