{"product_id":"miss-grief-performance-edition-9781957763392","title":"Miss Grief: Performance Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat does it cost to be heard?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Constance Fenimore Woolson's quietly devastating story \u003cem\u003eMiss Grief\u003c\/em\u003e (1877), a celebrated young writer in Rome meets a persistent stranger-an older woman who begs him to read her play. What begins as polite dismissal turns into uneasy admiration as he discovers that the \"madwoman\" at his door may be the truer artist of the two. Through the smallest gestures of kindness and cruelty, Woolson exposes the gulf between recognition and worth, and the timeless struggle of women whose voices were never meant to carry beyond the parlor walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003ePerformance Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e, adapted by \u003cstrong\u003eQuerida Funck\u003c\/strong\u003e, invites that voice forward again. Blending Woolson's original prose with new contextual essays and stagecraft guidance, it transforms a nineteenth-century narrative into a living work for twenty-first-century readers, actors, and educators. Commentary and performance notes illuminate how silence, irony, and restraint can become tools of truth in both literature and spoken storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for classrooms, book clubs, salons, and small-stage performance, \u003cem\u003eMiss Grief (Performance Edition)\u003c\/em\u003e provides everything needed to interpret Woolson's text aloud-from pacing and tone to discussion prompts and a bonus monologue adaptation from \u003cem\u003eCastle Nowhere.\u003c\/em\u003e Each section encourages performers to inhabit the story's emotional architecture: the blindness of privilege, the dignity of perseverance, and the fragile armor of belief in one's art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the \u003cstrong\u003eTrue Voice Shorts - Whispers of Forgotten Women\u003c\/strong\u003e series from \u003cstrong\u003eLemery House Press\u003c\/strong\u003e, this edition continues the mission to revive timeless works with care, clarity, and purpose-for contemporary reflection, performance, and the enduring act of listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lemery House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957763392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Querida Funck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733236281525,"sku":"9781957763392","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/miss-grief-performance-edition-9781957763392","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}