James Fenimore Cooper

(1789-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 NRA: Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) American Novelist LBT ID: JaCoope1851 VIAF ID: 27062769 LOC ID: n79059786	B/BAP: 1789-09-15 DIED: 1851-09-14
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American novelist educated at Yale College; he was author of The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and the other Leatherstocking Tales.
REFERENCES TO James Fenimore Cooper: [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 33 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 3: ¶ 33 ¶ 37 ¶ 40 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 5: On Life Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 27 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 15 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 11 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1828-1830. Found 1: ¶ 9 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIV. Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 13: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 46 Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 85