I'm revisiting my trip of three years ago (almost exactly) to the sites in England and Italy where Woolson lived. You can see my first two posts about England here and here. I've been back to England again since, but Italy still haunts me. My first stop was Venice, the city that Woolson thought of as her Xanadu. Once I saw it in person, I…
I am revisiting my trip to follow in Constance Fenimore Woolson's footsteps almost exactly three years ago. My first stops were Salisbury and Wells, England, which I discussed in my last post. From Wells, via Bath, I visited Cheltenham, the spa town in which Woolson lived for about two years in 1890 and 1891. She was never happy there, so I didn't stay…
I received an email recently from a novelist who is writing about Woolson and returning soon to Italy to visit the sites associated with her. It's exactly three years ago that I was on my trip to England and Italy to follow in Woolson's footsteps. So I found myself looking through my old pictures and thought I would share some of them as a way of…