POETRY
Selected works of Constance Fenimore Woolson were printed (and reprinted) in several volumes of family biography by Woolson's niece, Clare Benedict. To the uninitiated, they are confusing, thus this note. Five Generations: 1785-1923 is the general title for three volumes published in 1930: Voices Out of the Past (Vol. 1), Constance Fenimore Woolson (Vol. 2), and The Benedicts Abroad (Vol. 3). Benedict then reprinted the second volume of the series, Constance Fenimore Woolson, in 1932 and added selected published and unpublished materials in "Appendix A." In this bibliography, the four volumes Benedict edited are referred to as: Benedict 1, Benedict 2, Benedict 3, Benedict 4 (1932).

Many of Woolson's poems, and all that appear in Benedict, are now available in the Chadwick-Healey database LION (Literature On-Line).

Works in this section have been divided by subject matter.

PEOPLE

"Charles Dickens. Christmas,1870." Harper's Bazar 3 (December 31, 1870):  842.  Reprint. Benedict 3: 272.

"In Memoriam."  In Memoriam of George S. Benedict.  [n. p.:  n. p.], 1871: 80.  Reprint.  Benedict 3: 649-650.

"Alas."  In Memoriam of George S. Benedict.  [n. p.:  n. p.], 1871.  Reprint.  Benedict 4(1932): 495.

"We Shall Meet Them Again."  Benedict 4 (1932): 546-547.

"Thy Will Be Done." In Memoriam of George S. Benedict.  [n.p.:  n.p.], 1871.

"Plum's Picture."  Benedict 3: 650.

"Clara 'Bright, Illustrious.'"  Benedict 3: 630.

"Charles Dickens. Christmas 1870."  Benedict 3: 272.

"Memory."  Appletons' Journal 10 (November 8, 1873): 597.

"Love Unexpressed."  Appletons' Journal 7 (March 9, 1872): 273.  Reprint. New York Evangelist 61:42 (October 16, 1890): 6; Benedict 2: 83-85; in American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, edited by John Hollander.  New York: Library of America, 1993: 393-394.

"Longing."  Appletons' Journal 7 (June 22, 1872): 686. Reprint. Benedict 1: 284; Benedict 4 (1932): 418.

"Ideal. (The Artist Speaks.)"  The Atlantic Monthly 30 (October 1872): 461. Reprint. Benedict 3:  651; Benedict 4 (1932): 548-549.

"The Greatest of All is Charity."  Harper's Bazar 6 (February 8, 1873): 90.

"Mizpah. Genesis 31.49."  Appletons' Journal 2 n.s. (June 1877): 539. Reprint. Benedict 2: 83; Benedict 4 (1932): 83.

"An Intercepted Letter."  Harper's Bazar 11 (September 7, 1878): 578.

"'I Too!'"  Appletons' Journal 3 n.s. (September 1877): 270.

"Forgotten." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 53 (July 1876): 216. Reprint. The Independent 28:1453 (October 5, 1876): 27.

"To George Eliot."  The New Century for Woman No. 2 (May 20, 1876): 1. Reprint. Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets, edited by Paula Bennett.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 1998.

"To Jean Ingelow."  The New Century for Woman No. 9 (July 8, 1876): 67.

"Cleopatra."  Appletons' Journal 10 (October 4, 1873): 419.

"On a Homely Woman, Dead."  Harper's Bazar 9 (April 1, 1876): 210. Reprint. Benedict 3: 630.

"Commonplace." Ohio Farmer 22:15 (April 12, 1873): 234;  Lippincott's Magazine 6 (February 1873): 59-60. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932):  542-544.

"Tom."  Appletons' Journal 15 (May 20, 1876): 656.  Reprint. Saturday Evening Post 55:49 (July 1, 1876): 8; Zion's Herald 66:51 (December 19, 1888): 406; Benedict 2: 79-81; Benedict 4 (1932):  79-81.

"To Certain Biographers."  Appletons' Journal 5 n.s. (September 1878): 376. 

 

NATURE AND THE SEASONS

"The Herald's Cry."  Lippincott's Magazine 9 (January 1872): 98. Reprint. Benedict 1: 75-77.

"February."  Appletons' Journal 4 (February 8, 1873): 210.

"The God of February." Miss Woolson's Poetry Book,  Constance Fenimore Woolson Papers, Container 3, Folder 41.  Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.

"March."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 46 (March 18, 1873): 508.  Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932):  77-79.

"In March."  Current Literature 4:3 (March 1890): 224.

"Yellow Jessamine."  Appletons' Journal 11 (March 21, 1874): 372.  Reprint. Saturday Evening Post 53:37 (April 11, 1874): 3; Benedict 1: 235; Benedict 4 (1932): 463; in American Anthology, edited by Edmund Stedman.  Boston, MA: Riverside, 1900: 460-461; in The Home Book of Verse, edited by Burton Stevenson.  Boston, MA:  Henry Holt, 1953.

"Walpurgis Night."  Old and New 5 (January 1872): 61.  Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 427.

"The Heart of June." Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture.  31:35 (May 25, 1872): 4; The Galaxy 13 (June 1872): 816. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 426; Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets, edited by Paula Bennett.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

"Four-Leaved Clover."  Harper's Bazar 9 (July 8, 1876): 433. Reprint. Benedict 3: 133-134; Benedict 4:(1932): 499.

"Heliotrope."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 47 (July 1873): 274. 

"Corn Fields."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 45 (August 1872): 444. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 428.

"Lake Erie in September."  Appletons' Journal 8 (October 12, 1872): 413. Reprint. Benedict 1: 190; Benedict 4 (1932): 429; in The Anthology of Western Reserve Literature, edited by David R. Anderson and Gladys Haddad.  Kent, OH:  Kent State University Press, 1992.

"Floating.  Otsego Lake, September, 1872."  The New York Evening Mail, September 14, 1872: 1.

"October's Song."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 45 (October 1872): 753. Reprint. The Chautauquan 18:1 (October 1893): 122.

"Indian Summer."  Appletons' Journal 12 (October 17, 1874): 500. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 430.

"In the December Twilight."  Miss Woolson's Poetry Book, Constance Fenimore Woolson Papers, Container 3, Folder 41. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. 

"Christmas in the City," Appletons' Journal 8:196 (December 28, 1872): 724.

NARRATIVE VERSE

"Two Ways." Ohio Farmer 22:22 (April 12, 1873): 346; The Atlantic Monthly 31 (June 1873): 669-670. Reprint. Benedict 2: 85-87; Benedict 4 (1932): 85-87.

"Off Thunder Bay."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 45 (July 1872): 168. Reprint. Benedict 1: 198-199; Benedict 4 (1932): 413-414.

"Sail-Rock, Lake Superior."  Appletons' Journal 10 (July 12, 1873): 33-34. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 415-416.

"Kentucky Belle. (Told in An Ohio Farm-House, 1868)."  Appletons' Journal 10 (September 6, 1873): 289-290. Reprint. Benedict 1: 239-241; Benedict 4 (1932): 464-467.

"The Haunting Face."  Appletons' Journal 10 (December 6, 1873): 723. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 547-548.

"Hero Worship."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 47 (October 1873): 727. Reprint. Benedict 4 (1932): 544-545.

"Delores."  Appletons' Journal 12 (July 11, 1874): 33-34. Reprint. Benedict 1: 236-238; Benedict 4 (1932):  459-462.

"At the Smithy. (Pickens County, South Carolina, 1874.)"  Appletons' Journal 12 (September 5, 1874): 289-290.

"The Legend of Maria Sanchez Creek."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 50 (January 1875): 171.

"A Fire in the Forest."  Appletons' Journal 4 (December 4, 1875): 705-706.

"On the Border."  Appletons' Journal 1 n.s. (September 18, 1876): 282.

"'Only the Brakesman.'"  Appletons' Journal 1 n.s. (July 1876): 47-48.

"Two Women. 1862."  Appletons' Journal 2 n.s. (January 1877): 60-67; 2 n.s. (February 1877): 140-147. Reprint.  New York: Appleton and Company, 1877, 1885, 1890, 1893; Alexandria, VA:  Chadwick-Healey, 1996; She Wields a Pen:  American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Janet Gray.  Iowa City, IA:  University of Iowa Press, 1997.

  

PLACES

"Contrast.  Six O'Clock Broadway."  Benedict 4 (1932):  496.

"The Florida Beach."  The Galaxy 18 (October 1874): 482-483. Reprint. Benedict 1: 232; Benedict 4 (1932): 458-459; in American Poetry:  The Nineteenth Century, edited by John Hollander.  New York: Library of America, 1993. Vol. 2: 394-395; in Constance Fenimore Woolson:  Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, edited by Victoria Brehm and Sharon Dean. Knoxville, TN:  University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

"Pine-Barrens."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 50 (December 1874): 66. Reprint. Benedict 1:  230; Benedict 4 (1932): 457-458.

"Matanzas River."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 50 (December 1874): 24.

"Morris Island."  Appletons' Journal 1 n.s. (December 1876): 537. Reprint. Benedict 3: 225-226.

"Mentone."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 68 (January 1884): 216. Reprint.  New York Evangelist 55:4(January 24, 1884): 6; Benedict 2: 178; Benedict 4 (1932): 178; in Constance Fenimore Woolson:  Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, edited by Victoria Brehm and Sharon Dean.  Knoxville, TN:  University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

"Gettysburg 1876."  Holograph in American War Ballads and Lyrics. New York: Putnam, 1889. Reprint.  Benedict 3:  224-225.

"Detroit River."  Benedict 4 (1932): 417. Reprint. In Constance Fenimore Woolson:  Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, edited by Victoria Brehm and Sharon Dean.  Knoxville, TN:  University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

"Mackinac--Revisited."  Benedict 4 (1932):  419.

 

ANIMALS

"Gentleman Waife. (The Animal Kingdom.)"  Benedict 4(1932): 497-498.

"Haj you Chorgotten?" Holograph ms. Clare Benedict Collection, Folder 82. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

"Martins on the Telegraph Wire."  Benedict 2: 81-82. 

 
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