Pinning this for notes as I read through this #LibraryOfAmerica collection of Constance Fenimore Woolson's stories.
Pinning this for notes as I read through this #LibraryOfAmerica collection of Constance Fenimore Woolson's stories.
Have read four stories so far, all from her first volume of stories, *Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches*
"Peter the Parson" - a priest in a rough-and-tumble mining town has few congregants and gets little respect. His fate gets tangled up with a deceitful pastor and he falls victim to vigilante justice.
"Jeannette" - a woman of mixed background (indigenous, French, English) is the recipient of a white do-gooder's attention, who seeks to educate her, as well as the attention of an older white gentleman who wants to marry her. Neither of them actually know Jeannette very well at all.
"Solomon" - two vacationing, interloping upper-class women fall for the love story of an artist who gives up his craft so he can support his wife as a miner. This is the first of the stories presented here to happen near Zoar, Ohio, with reference to the separatist community that settled there.
"Wilhelmina" - this one takes place within the Zoarite community. When young men from the community go off to fight in the civil war - against the rules of the community - one leaves behind a young woman (Wilhelmina) who refuses to move on. This one is also told from the perspective of an interloping do-gooder who gets wrapped up in the titular character's romance.
"Solomon" - two vacationing, interloping upper-class women fall for the love story of an artist who gives up his craft so he can support his wife as a miner. This is the first of the stories presented here to happen near Zoar, Ohio, with reference to the separatist community that settled there.
"Wilhelmina" - this one takes place within the Zoarite community. When young men from the community go off to fight in the civil war - against the rules of the community - one leaves behind a young woman (Wilhelmina) who refuses to move on. This one is also told from the perspective of an interloping do-gooder who gets wrapped up in the titular character's romance.
