Representing the culmination of decades of recovery work done by female scholars, Library of America’s new volume is edited by Anne Boyd Rioux, whose 2016 biography Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist has been especially instrumental in restoring and rehabilitating Woolson’s literary reputation. The greenery, dear, should be either growing naturally upward or twining large branches standing in the corners like trees, or climbing vines.Whether set in the Great Lakes region, the Reconstruction–era South, or among American expatriates in Europe, these stories display Woolson as an innovator of American literary realism, a writer of deep feeling, psychological complexity, and exceptional descriptive powers. There should be sprays falling from it here and there, like a real vine.

William Douglas stopped playing for a moment, and turned his head toward the speaker, who, standing on a ladder, bent herself to one side, in order that he might see the wreath of evergreen, studded with cones, which she had hung on the wall over one of the small arched windows. We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena, but it is certain that not by strength of ours, or by the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, he must stand or fall.' EMERSON. 'It is but little we can do for each other. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.' 'Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison house begin to close Upon the growing boy But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. 'HE REACHED THE WINDOWS, AND PEEPED THROUGH A CRACK IN THE OLD BLIND' ' 530

'THE SECOND BOAT, WHICH WAS FARTHER UP THE LAKE, CONTAINED A MAN' ' 514 'HE ROSE, AND TOOK HER COLD HANDS IN HIS' ' 460 'SAW HER SLOWLY ASCEND THE HOUSE STEPS' ' 408 'SHE TRIED TO RISE, BUT HE HELD HER ARM WITH BOTH HANDS' ' 386 'JULY WALKED IN FRONT, WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER' ' 374 'WHILE HER MAID WAS COILING HER FAIR HAIR' ' 308 'ANNE DREW A CHAIR TO THE BEDSIDE, AND SAT DOWN WITH HER BACK TO THE MOONLIGHT' ' 284 'SHE BURIED HER FACE TREMBLINGLY IN HER HANDS' ' 262 'HE TOOK HIS BEST COAT FROM HIS LEAN VALISE' ' 208 'DEAR ME! WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH SUCH A YOUNG SAVAGE?' ' 152 'SHE SAT THERE HIGH IN THE AIR WHILE THE STEAMER BACKED OUT FROM THE PIERS' ' 120 'AND IT ENDED IN THEIR RACING DOWN TOGETHER' ' 84 'THE GIRL PAUSED AND REFLECTED A MOMENT' To face NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUAREĮntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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