Cockburn, Catharine Trotter(1679?–1749)
Catharine Trotter, according to her editor and biographer, was born on August 16, 1679, the younger of two daughters of David Trotter, a captain in the R...
Read more
Literary history has not been kind to Catharine Trotter. Once a celebrated dramatist, Trotter is now a curiosity, and not just because she was a female writer. Her misfortune was that she was only fou...
Read more
Catharine Trotter began her public writing career at the age of fourteen with her short epistolary novel, Olinda's Adventures: Or the Amours of a Young Lady (1693). She proceeded to write across sever...
Read more
Cockburn, Catharine Trotter (1679?-1749)
Catharine Trotter (Cockburn)