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Audubon Magazine Features
Cooperstown Nature Writer
Susan Fenimore Cooper's Reputation Rising

COOPERSTOWN – This month's edition of Audubon magazine features Susan Fenimore Cooper, whose "Rural Hours" (1850) was mentioned by Henry David Thoreau his journals prior to the publication of his famous "Walden" (1854).
Credited simply as "by a lady," her "Rural Hours," while praised by such giants at Charles Darwin, prevented Susan from even approaching the fame of her father, James Fenimore Cooper.
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