"Elinor Wyllys - Volume I" from Susan Fenimore Cooper. American writer and amateur naturalist (1813-1894).

"Elinor Wyllys - Volume II" from Susan Fenimore Cooper. American writer and amateur naturalist (1813-1894).

"Female Suffrage - a Letter to the Christian Women of America" from Susan Fenimore Cooper. American writer and amateur naturalist (1813-1894).

The Water Witch is a 1830 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set in 17th century New York, and the surrounding sea, the novel depicts the abduction of a woman, Alida de Barberie, by the pirate captain of the brigantine, Water Witch, and the subsequent pursuit of that elusive ship by her suitor, Captain Ludlow.Cooper wrote the novel, while on a extended tour of Europe, during his stay in the villa Palazzu detta del Tasso near Naples. 1] Cooper tried to print the novel while he was in Italy in 1829 but Papal censors forbade its publication in Italy. 1] Cooper was then able to print the novel in...