Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe. Woolson's short stories have long been regarded as pioneering examples of local color or regionalism. Today, her novels, short stories, poetry, and travelogues are studied and taught from a range of scholarly...