Constance Fenimore Woolson, Dorothy and other Italian Stories

Leonardo Buonomo (Universita degli studi di Trieste)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1894

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

Constance Fenimore Woolson's last work of fiction, Dorothy and Other Italian Stories, was published posthumously in 1896. It includes five stories – “Dorothy”, “A Transplanted Boy”, “A Florentine Experiment”, “A Waitress”, and “At the Château of Corinne” – all of which had previously appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, with the exception of “A Florentine Experiment,” which had been published in The Atlantic Monthly. Like Woolson's previous “Italian” collection, The Front Yard, Dorothy presents American characters in an Old World setting and examines the ways in which the local environment and people affect the visitors from across the Atlantic. In “Dorothy” a…

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Citation: Buonomo, Leonardo. "Dorothy and other Italian Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 November 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5561, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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