Constance Fenimore Woolson

HJ met the New England writer Constance Fenimore Woolson in 1880, the same year that she published her first novel, and the year after, following her mother's death, she moved from the USA to Europe...

For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET used Henry James 's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson , and Mary Shelley 's stepsister Claire Clairmont as source for his novel.

ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...

She made some trips abroad, but apparently not for extended periods. A visit to Algeria in the 1880s seems to have provided the setting for her novel Alas!, and she spent time with her...