Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Woolson, Constance Fenimore (Anne March, pen name)

(1840–94) writer; born in Claremont, N.H. (great-niece of James Fenimore Cooper). Her family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when she was young, and she studied there and in New York City. She traveled with her mother in various parts of America and wrote travel sketches and regional stories for periodicals, such as Castle Nowhere: Lake Country Sketches (1875). She lived in Europe beginning in 1879, where she became a friend of Henry James (who portrayed her in The Aspern Papers). She also wrote novels, including For the Major (1883), short stories, and poetry. After a serious illness she committed suicide in Venice.