Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843.[1] The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief.[2]

After the initial publication in Graham's Magazine the novel was published by several other magazines, including Brother Jonathan.[1] The novel was published in whole in 1843 by Cooper's London publisher Richard Bentley under a sep