Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan, 1955.
141
James Fenimore Cooper
Standard Name: Cooper, James Fenimore
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
| Education | Ann Bridge | As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fuller | Her father, Timothy Fuller
, was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University
, he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a... |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke
(whose daughter became Lady Byron
), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve
, William Sotheby
, William Harness |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette
, who had fought during the French Revolution. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 32-5 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Parisian scientific community warmly welcomed MS
on the basis of her translation of Laplace's Méchanique Céleste. As well as renewing contact with many of the scientific figures she had encountered on her previous... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism
and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB
's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997. lviii-lix |
| Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | The volume was approvingly reviewed by James Fenimore Cooper
(who was later taken to court by CMS
's brother in a financial dispute). Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, 2003, p. various pages. xxiv-xxxv |
| Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne
described her as our most truthful novelist, qtd. in Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne, 1974. 137 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Dunlop | Again the Sydney Herald reacted with fury. In April 1842 it accused ED
of deliberately misleading her readers as to the character of the Aboriginals, whom it said she seemed to know no better than... |
| Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS
was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington
) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery... |
| Textual Features | D. H. Lawrence | Here Lawrence discusses such authors as Fenimore Cooper
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Herman Melville
, and Edgar Allan Poe
. |
Timeline
15 September 1789: James Fenimore Cooper, novelist, was born...
Writing climate item
15 September 1789
James Fenimore Cooper
, novelist, was born at Burlington, New Jersey, USA.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
177
1 February 1823: James Fenimore Cooper published The Pioneers,...
Writing climate item
1 February 1823
James Fenimore Cooper
published The Pioneers, the first of his series known as Leather-Stocking Tales.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
227
Ford, Mark. “Time of the Red-Man”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 18, 25 Sept. 2008, pp. 27-9. 27-8
6 February 1826: James Fenimore Cooper published The Last...
Writing climate item
6 February 1826
James Fenimore Cooper
published The Last of the Mohicans, the second of his Leather-Stocking Tales series, about the slow demise of a Native American Tribe.
Peck, H. Daniel, editor. New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
3, 6-7
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 February 2008
27 August 1841: US author James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer,...
Writing climate item
27 August 1841
US author James Fenimore Cooper
's The Deerslayer, the last of the Leather-Stocking Tales, appeared in print.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
724 (1841): 708
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 August 2010
14 September 1851: James Fenimore Cooper, US novelist, died...
Writing climate item
14 September 1851
James Fenimore Cooper
, US novelist, died the day before his sixty-second birthday.
“Biographic Information”. The James Fenimore Cooper Society, 14 May 2004.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.