Constance Fenimore Woolson was the great niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a close friend and correspondent of Henry James. A successful short story and novel writer Woolson was one of the "local color", or American literary regionalism authors popular in late-nineteenth century America. She travelled a great deal through America and Europe where she gathered material for her works. Woolson's stories focus on character, dialects, customs and landscape

The seventeenth-century colonies established along the northeast coast of North America served as the intersection between the Old World and the New World, and the culture that took hold there — inspired by Europe, but with its own unique flavor — would play an enormous role in setting the course of American history. In this interesting volume, author Alice Morse Earle presents a time capsule of life during the period.