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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (April 17, 1813 – December 31, 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, New York and made it a successful charity.
Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (born April 17, 1813, Mamaroneck, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 31, 1894, Cooperstown, N.Y.) was a 19th-century American writer and philanthropist, remembered for her writing and essays on nature and the rural life.
Jan 8, 2021 · Learn about Susan Fenimore Cooper, who published Rural Hours anonymously in 1850 and warned of the dangers of overexploiting natural resources. Discover how her work influenced Thoreau and was rediscovered by modern scholars.
Apr 27, 2017 · Susan Cooper’s book sprang from journals of her observations on weather, fauna and flora, and the general rural life around her hometown of Cooperstown, New York, founded by her grandfather William Cooper in 1786.
May 31, 2018 · Although she’s traditionally described rather narrowly as her father James Fenimore Cooper’s secretary and caretaker, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) was an artist, naturalist, and author of nonfiction and fiction in her own right.
Born Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper on April 17, 1813, in Mamaroneck, New York; died of possible stroke in Cooperstown, New York, on December 31, 1894; daughter of Susan Augusta (De Lancey) Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper (a writer); educated privately at home in Cooperstown, New York, until 1817, when the family moved to New York City ...
This section is devoted to the life and writings of Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), eldest daughter of James Fenimore Cooper and a distinguished writer and naturalist. She is best known for her nature diary of Cooperstown, Rural Hours , first published in 1850 and frequently reprinted.
