THE LOST MEMOIRS OF JANE AUSTEN BY SYRIE JAMES - M.RA FRIDAY WITH GIVEAWAY - PHILLIPA ASHLEY, NORTH A.WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING - SHERLOCK (BBC ONE 2010).AUTHOR INTERVIEW + GIVEAWAY : SHERRI RABINOWITZ.WAITING FOR TODAY'S RA FRIDAY - WINNER OF PHILLIPA.GIVEAWAY WINNERS FOR FANTASY TIME INC.WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING - THE DEVIL'S WHORE (2008).ELIZABETH ASWORTH AND THE DE LACY INHERITANCE - A.RA FRIDAY - ROSY THORNTON ON NORTH AND SOUTH, RICH.GIVEAWAY WINNER - THE DE LACY INHERITANCE BY ELIZA.All I know of them is from reading, and from hearing my father speak of them". In fact, Cooper told his friend Sir Charles Augustus Murray, "I never was among the Indians. I wasnt raised Christian and wasnt one when I read Cooper, but I am Christian now. I was borderline hip with my Stones, Dylan, Steppenwolf etc. I really liked it, it painted a nice picture of the past. Rather, he read widely in the best authorities on individual tribes in particular, we know that he read of the Delawares in Heckewelder and of the Plains Indians in Biddle's account of the expedition of Lewis and Clark.". I read one of these Fennimore Cooper novels back in the 1970s I think. So far as we can tell, Cooper had little personal contact with Indians. In Savagism and Civilization, Roy Pearce states, " Cooper was interested in the Indian not for his own sake but for the sake of his relationship to the civilized men who were destroying him.
Indeed, Cooper did not have much first-hand knowledge of American Indians. The most common charge leveled against Cooper is that the Indians did not resemble any that could be found in life simply, they were wildly unrealistic. While Cooper's Indians undeniably made an important impact on American fiction, they have been the subject of much literary debate.
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