11. Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux

Guest and Constance Fenimore Woolson biographer Anne Boyd Rioux

In this episode, Kim and Amy have a conversation about Constance Fenimore Woolson’s novel Anne (1880) with professor and author Anne Boyd Rioux, whose biography of Woolson was named one of 2016’s ten best books of the year by The Chicago Tribune. Woolson, a close friend of Henry James, is remembered as a salacious footnote in his story, yet upon its publication, her novel Anne sold ten times as many copies as James’s Portrait of a Lady. Learn more about Woolson’s fascinating life, and find out what makes her novel one we know you’ll want to read too.

Discussed in this episode:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Wings of a Dove by Henry James

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories edited by Anne Boyd Rioux

“Sketches from Solitude” by Michal Gorra (New York Review of Books)

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist by Anne Boyd Rioux

Miss Grief and Other Stories by Anne Boyd Rioux