The Eclipse is an autobiographical vignette by James Fenimore Cooper that was written between 1833 and 1838, recounting his own experience witnessing a total solar eclipse in Cooperstown on the morning of June 16, 1806. It was published posthumously in the September 1869 issue of Putnam's Monthly Magazine.[1] Susan Fenimore Cooper, the author's daughter, found it among his papers.[2]
References
- ^ Putnam's Monthly Magazine 21 (n.s. 4) (Sept. 1869): 352–359
- ^ The entry in "The Cooper Bookshelf" of the James Fenimore Cooper Society website
External links
- Original publication in Putnam's Magazine, 1869
- The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, at Cornell University Library
