A landmark of literary recovery the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19thcentury Americas greatest woman writer In the eyes of her contemporaries Constance Fenimore Woolson 18401894 ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and Willian Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long complic