Castle Nowhere Constance Fenimore Woolson 9781519253484 Books
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Not many years ago the shore bordering the head of Lake Michigan, the northern curve of that silver sea, was a wilderness unexplored. It is a wilderness still, showing even now on the school-maps nothing save an empty waste of colored paper, generally a pale, cold yellow suitable to the climate, all the way from Point St. Ignace to the iron ports on the Little Bay de Noquet, or Badderknock in lake phraseology, a hundred miles of nothing, according to the map-makers, who, knowing nothing of the region, set it down accordingly, withholding even those long-legged letters, 'Chip-pe-was,' 'Ric-ca-rees,' that stretch accommodatingly across so much townless territory farther west.
Castle Nowhere Constance Fenimore Woolson 9781519253484 Books
Woolson's stories of the Great Lakes, especially around the Straits of Mackinac and on Lake Superior, are powerful and moving. The title story is the best in my opinion and clearly influenced by her reading of her great-uncle, James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer.However, this is not a complete edition of Castle Nowhere. It only contains the title story, Jeannette, and The Old Agency. The complete collection contains: Castle Nowhere, Peter the Parson, Jeannette, The Old Agency, Misery Landing, Solomon, Wilhelmina, St. Clair Flats, and The Lady of Little Fishing.
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Castle Nowhere Constance Fenimore Woolson 9781519253484 Books Reviews
For Constance Fenimore Woolson, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and its islands were a wonder, a mixture of absolute beauty and utter wilderness. But the area was more than just a place of natural wonder, it was virginal and perfect, an Eden. Woolson began her summer visits to Mackinac Island when she was fifteen years old. She had already witnessed death close up after the death of six of her siblings. On the cusp of sexual awareness, full of life and energy and good health, Mackinac was the perfect match for her. She could be alone, she could swim and row and walk, she could be out in a manageable wilderness. I imagine that is how she felt about herself, with her talents of observation and health and sensitivity she was a manageable wilderness as well. For her always, Mackinac wold be Eden, wild but clean and good, capable of being understood. Even with warnings of getting lost in the wilderness, caught in a fog or a snow and ice storm or paddling for miles through waters where no landmark showed the way (all details from her Mackinac stories), the underlying arms of Mackinac -- of support, beauty, goodness -- are there.
At one point in the story "Jeannette", Woolson compares the pure, light, and pristine beauty of Mackinac with the decadent, heavy, and dangerous landscape of the South, Florida in particular. The virginal and cleansed Island versus the secretive and seductive swamps of the South. Although in her thirties Woolson would move to Florida with her mother, and grow to love St. Augustine, and other towns of the South, all of which she wrote about in her stories and novels, the North was in her bones and her soul. The cold and cleansed North would always be the point of the compass by which she lived, physically and morally. Her heroines are borne of Mackinac -- strong and pure but with a hint of wilderness. Just, I think, like Woolson herself.
For a wonderful fictionalized biography of Woolson, read "The Open Door" by Elizabeth Maguire.
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Woolson's stories of the Great Lakes, especially around the Straits of Mackinac and on Lake Superior, are powerful and moving. The title story is the best in my opinion and clearly influenced by her reading of her great-uncle, James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer.
However, this is not a complete edition of Castle Nowhere. It only contains the title story, Jeannette, and The Old Agency. The complete collection contains Castle Nowhere, Peter the Parson, Jeannette, The Old Agency, Misery Landing, Solomon, Wilhelmina, St. Clair Flats, and The Lady of Little Fishing.
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