Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy PDF
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their other side .................16158$ $$FM 09-28-0615:36:51 PS PAGEi by the same author ACircularJourney RomeBurning,poetry Umbertina,anovel TheDreamBook:AnAnthologyofWritingsbyItalianAmerican Women LoveintheMiddleAges,anovel MoreItalianHours,shortfiction Festa:Recipes&RecollectionsofItalianHolidays AldusandHisDreamBook Chiaroscuro:EssaysofIdentity .................16158$ $$FM 09-28-0615:36:52 PS PAGEii their other side Six American Women and the Lure of Italy Helen Barolini FordhamUniversityPressnew york 2006 .................16158$ $$FM 09-28-0615:36:52 PS PAGEiii Copyright(cid:2)2006FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic, mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotations inprintedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Barolini,Helen,1925– Theirotherside:sixAmericanwomenandthelureofItaly/Helen Barolini.—1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-8232-2629-0(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-8232-2629-8(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Americanliterature—Womenauthors—Italianinfluences. 2. Italy—Inliterature. 3. Womenauthors,American—Homesand haunts—Italy. 4. Womenauthors,American—19thcentury—Biography. 5. Womenauthors,American—20thcentury—Biography. I. Title. PS159.I8B37 2006 820.9(cid:2)3245—dc22 2006029458 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition .................16158$ $$FM 09-28-0615:36:52 PS PAGEiv contents Acknowledgments vii Prologue xi 1. ArdorandApocalypse: TheTimelessTrajectoryofMargaret Fuller 1 2. TheItalianSideofEmilyDickinson 53 3. Constance WoolsonandDeathinVenice 83 4. MabelDodgeLuhan:InSearchofaPersonalSouth 129 5. Yankee Principessa:MargueriteCaetani 177 6. IrisOrigo:TotheManor/Manner Born 233 Afterword 275 Notes 287 Bibliography 293 Index 301 v .................16158$ CNTS 09-28-0615:37:14 PS PAGEv .................16158$ CNTS 09-28-0615:37:14 PS PAGEvi acknowledgments Excerpts from this work appeared in shortened versions in these publications: ‘‘The American Discovery of Italy’’ in Americans in Modern Italy, a special issue of The Cesare Barbieri Courier (n.d.); ‘‘TheItalianSideofEmilyDickinson,’’TheVirginiaQuarterlyRe- view, Summer 1994; ‘‘The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops,’’ The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1998; and ‘‘Mabel Dodge Luhan: In Search of a Personal South,’’ Southwest Review, Summer1998. In gathering material for this book, I had access to the re- sourcesofvariouslibrariesandhistoricalsocietieseitherthrough personal visits or correspondence, as well as encounters with manyinterestedandhelpfulpeoplealongtheway.Itisapleasure to thank the staff of my nearest and most-used libraries at Sarah Lawrence College and Mercy College—they provided unfailing and friendly assistance. I gratefully record the personal attention of Prof. Maria Xenia Wells and the Harry Ranson Humanities ResearchCenterattheUniversityofTexasatAustin,andtheFon- dazione Caetani in Rome which gave permission to examine the correspondence of Marguerite Caetani. I also would like to per- sonally thank the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection Library at Columbia University, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England,theHoughtonLibraryatHarvardUniversity,theMassa- chusetts Historical Society in Boston, the Special Collections at GeorgetownUniversityLibrary,theSpecialCollectionsattheSyr- acuseUniversityLibrary,theUniversityofWashingtonLibraries, vii .................16158$ $ACK 09-28-0615:37:15 PS PAGEvii the Public Library of New London, Connecticut, the manuscript collection of Beinecke Library at Yale University, and the Centro Studi Americani in Rome. While in Rome during a residency at the American Academy, I benefited both from access to its fine library and from its central location on the Janiculum Hill, so closetolandmarksassociatedwiththe1848–49RomeRevolution inwhichMargaretFullerparticipated. I am indebted to the following persons for providing me with texts, introductions, information, or illuminating insights that helped in the development of my work: Walter Arnold, Cristina Anzilotti, Michael Biddle, Frances Biddle, Schuyler Chapin, Bell Gale Chevigny, Tea Codignola, Spencer Evans, Sally Fitzgerald, DenisGreenan,MaryGreenly,LuHamlin,ShirleyHerbert,Esme Howard,JamesLaughlin,SuzannaLengyel,LauroMarchetti,Ben Morreale, Becca Mudge, Frank Nigro, Benedetta Origo, Florence Phillips, Giuliano Prezzolini, Laurance and Isabel Roberts, Eu- gene Walter, Maria Xenia Wells, and Sheila Wertheimer. And a specialwordofappreciationtoKennethMaddox,ArtHistorianat the Cropsey-Newington Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, for directing me to Maria Cropsey’s correspondence. And, most of all, my gratitude to Robert Oppedisano for his belief in, andsupportof,mywork.Thankyou,all! Acknowledgmentsofillustrative material: Cover illustration: Venetian Scene by James McNeill Whistler, fromNewBritainMuseumofArt,NewBritain,Connecticut. Daguerreotype of Margaret Fuller, the Schlesinger Library, Rad- cliffeInstitute,HarvardUniversity. Daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, by permission of Trustees of Amherst College. viii Acknowledgments .................16158$ $ACK 09-28-0615:37:15 PS PAGEviii Photograph of Constance Fenimore Woolson, call no. pfMS Am 1094, Box 1, by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Photograph of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Yale Collection of American Literature,BeineckeRareBookandManuscriptLibrary. Photographs of Marguerite Caetani, Harry Ransom Humanities ResearchCenter,theUniversityofTexasatAustin. DrawingofIrisOrigoby AugustusJohn,bypermissionof Bene- dettaOrigo. Acknowledgments ix .................16158$ $ACK 09-28-0615:37:16 PS PAGEix
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