Links

Students of Woolson's life and writings can find valuable help on-line, especially some e-text versions of her stories and links to sites devoted to Woolson's contemporaries.

General Sites Of Interest

William Dean Howells and His Contemporaries is a great resource for Woolson scholars, providing links to Howells and others important in Woolson's life. This site also has extensive links to other resources at "American Literature Resources on The Web." .http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell

19th-Century America Literary & Cultural Links to The Web is another good place to begin, since it is a listing of several relevant sites. http://www.traverse.com/people/dot/links.html

A third useful site is The Henry James Scholars' Guide to Web Sites. This is a large site with many useful links. Note especially "A Grab Bag: Home Pages of Authors, and Other Goodies." http://www.newpaltz.edu:80/~hathaway/

Sites Specific To Woolson And Woolson Texts

The Legacy site provides etext versions of several of Woolson's short stories, plus an excellent introduction to her life. http://www.unl.edu/legacy/legacy.htm

To explore the nineteenth-century magazines where Woolson often published, and to read her work there, two sites are particularly useful. The "Making Of America" project at Cornell University and the University of Michigan is putting nineteenth-century periodicals on the web. These are not in e-text or html and they are slow, but they do offer a number of issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, The Galaxy, and Appletons' Journal and are a way to read some out-of-print Woolson fiction, essays, and poetry. There are also occasional mistakes, however. Since this is an on-going project, new issues will be appearing. http://www.moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2.html http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa

The nineteenth-century magazine site at The University of Iowa has a syllabus, chat room, and bulletin board for all things related to these periodicals. http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/8-247-f97/index.html

Occasionally works by Woolson will appear on the web, but these sites are not always accessible. "Kentucky Belle," Woolson's narrative Civil War poem, is reproduced at Confederate Home Front Page. http://www.erols.com/kfraser/kentucky.htm

The Mercantile Library of New York offers "Women in The Life of Henry James," an essay by R. W. B. Lewis that discusses the Woolson/ James relationship, although the perspective on Woolson is sometimes condescending in the manner of most twentieth-century male critics. http://www.bookpages.com/themerc/womeninthelife.html

To search for copies of Woolson's works, both reprints and first editions, the on-line search and order service MX BookFinder is useful. http://www.mxfb.com/

Virtual Traveling

To explore the places Woolson lived and worked, there are several sites. Try the Mackinac Island Visitor's Bureau, specifically "Mackinac Island. . . A Place in History. 3. Writers Discover Mackinac" to see the setting for Anne and a photo of the memorial tablet to Woolson and her novel about the Island.http://www.mackinac.com/history/index.html

The St. Augustine, Florida visitor's site does not mention Woolson specifically, but visitors can take a virtual tour and send e-mail to the archives at the Historical Society. http://www.oldcity.com/oldhouse

Information on the Zoar Community of Ohio and a hypertext of Woolson's story "Wilhemina" is available at www.azimov.cwru.edu/Wilhelmina.

Related Sites

For information about Woolson's grand-uncle, James Fenimore Cooper, you can visit The Cooper Society Website.http://www.oneonta.edu/external/cooper