SOURCE: Ravage, Jessie. “In Response to the Women at Seneca Falls: Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Rightful Place of Woman in America.” In Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works, edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson, pp. 249-65. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2001.

In the following essay, Ravage surveys Cooper's conservative response to the women's suffrage movement, detailing the subtle ways in which the author reinforces traditional female roles in Rural Hours.

The July 14, 1848, number of the Seneca County Courier contained the following short announcement:

Seneca Falls Convention

Woman's Rights Convention.—A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman, will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July, current; commencing at 10 o'clock a.m. During the first day the meeting will be exclusively...