the biennial Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference. Friendship with Henry James The relationship between the two writers has prompted much speculation by biographers, especially Lyndall Gordon in her 1998 book, A Private Life of Henry James. Woolson's most famous story, Miss Grief, has been read as a fictionalization of their friendship, though she had not yet met James when she wrote it. Recent novels such as Emma Tennant's Felony (2002), David Lodge's Author, Author (2004), Colm Toibin's The Master (2004), and Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door (2008) have treated the still unclear relationship between Woolson and James. See also Mary Hartwell Catherwood References External links Woolson website with links to texts, criticism and biography, including a list of Woolson's letters and the archives that hold them Website of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society "The Lady Novelist" episode of What'sHerName'' podcast with guest Professor Anne Boyd Rioux. 1840 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American novelists 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers American women novelists Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome People from Claremont, New Hampshire Suicides by jumping in Italy Novelists from New Hampshire American women poets American expatriates in Italy 1890s suicides