Surprises and unpublished: Byron Constance Fenimore Woolson at the Marciana National Library. The donation Clare Rathbone Benedict
From 30 Marzo 2014 to 01 Maggio 2014
Venice
Place: Marciana National Library
Address: piazzetta S. Marco 7
Responsibles: Carlo Campana, Gregory Dowling, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Ticket price: full € 16, reduced € 10, students € 5.50 (single ticket for: Doge's Palace and the integrated path of the Correr Museum, National Archaeological Museum and Monumental Rooms of the Marciana National Library)
Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 2715911
E-Mail info: biblioteca@marciana.venezia.sbn.it
Official site: http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/
A meeting of the curators of the exhibition will open to the public Saturday, March 29, 2014 , at 10 am , with input from n. 13 / a of the Piazzetta San Marco. The exhibition will be staged in his Monumental Rooms from 30 March to 1 May 2014 .
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) , born in New Hampshire, was a writer of short stories and novels, appreciated by his friend Henry James , inspired by situations of places lived , the great lakes of Michigan, the southern United States after the War of Secession , Europe , where he lived from 1879 drew from these non- ordinary , unconventional . A clear and persuasive writing , but under the surface of which boiled hidden passions and disturbing mysteries. Not surprisingly, some of these newborn brushed against the police , or the more traditional gothic genre . This is Christmas Eve set in Venice (where he committed suicide Constance ) .
Clare Rathbone Benedict (1870-1961) , American, daughter of the sister of Constance Fenimore Woolson . She was also a writer, and collector of books and objects of Byron. He published a work in three volumes , Five Generations, the story of his family , with a volume devoted entirely to Woolson . He made donations in memory of Woolson to different American and Swiss institutions , that offer the Marciana remained unknown until now .
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