The Civil War was the central event of Woolson’s young adulthood. Woolson received an excellent education that included the study of such subjects as geology and botany – first at local schools, then at the Cleveland Female Seminary, and finally at Madame Chegarary’s boarding school in New York City where she graduated in 1858. On these trips, her keen eye for place and her interest in different cultures would later find expression in her fiction and travel pieces. During her childhood and young adulthood, she accompanied her father on business trips throughout Ohio and Wisconsin, spent summers on Mackinac Island in Michigan and toured New England. Woolson acquired a taste for travel at an early age, traveling extensively in the Midwest and the Northeast. There she watched her mother grieve over the death of another daughter in infancy and two older daughters who died shortly after their marriages. In the fall of 1840 her family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and Woolson grew up in what was then known as the West.
She never knew three of her sisters, who died in a scarlet fever epidemic within a month of her birth. She wrote travel sketches, poems and a children’s novel under the pseudonym Anne March, as well as a novella, four novels and more than fifty short stories for the major literary magazines of the nineteenth century.Ĭonstance Fenimore Woolson was born on Main Claremont, New Hampshire. Using her powers of keen observation, Woolson recorded both her natural surroundings and the customs of the people she encountered.
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