# Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Catharine Trotter Cockburn (Londres, 16 de agosto de 1679 - 11 de maio de 1749) foi uma novelista, dramaturga e filósofa inglesa.
Os pais de Catherine Trotter eram escoceses protestantes que viviam em Londres. Ela se converteu ao catolicismo muito jovem, mas retornou à Igreja da Inglaterra em 1707.

## Obra
### Teatro

* Agnes de Castro, Londres, Teatro Drury Lane, 1695-1696.
* Fatal Friendship, Londres, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1698.
* Love at a Loss, or, Most Votes Carry It (más tarde reescrita como The Honourable Deceiver; or, All Right at the Last), Londres, Teatro Real en Drury Lane, 1700.
* The Unhappy Penitent, Londres, Teatro real en Drury Lane, 1701.
* The Revolution of Sweden, Londres, Teatro de la Reina, 1706.

### Livros

* Agnes de Castro, A Tragedy (1696).
* Fatal Friendship. A Tragedy (1698).
* Love at a Loss, or, Most Votes Carry It. A Comedy (1701).
* The Unhappy Penitent, A Tragedy (1701).
* A Defence of Mr. Lock’s [sic.] Essay of Human Understanding (1702).
* The Revolution of Sweden. A Tragedy (1706).
* A Discourse concerning a Guide in Controversies, in Two Letters (1707).
* A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, Occasioned by His Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford (1726).
* Remarks Upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth’s Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue (1747).
* The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. 2 vols. (1751).

### Outras publicações

* Olinda’s Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady, en vol. 1 de Letters of Love and Gallantry and Several Other Subjects. (1693).
* Epílogo, en Queen Catharine or, The Ruines[sic.] of Love, por Mary Pix. (1698).
* “Calliope: The Heroick [sic.] Muse: On the Death of John Dryden, Esq.; By Mrs. C. T.” en The Nine Muses. Or, Poems Written by Nine severall [sic.] Ladies Upon the Death of the late Famous John Dryden, Esq. (1700).
* “Poetical Essays; May 1737: Verses, occasion’d by the Busts in the Queen’s Hermitage.” Gentleman’s Magazine, 7 (1737): 308.

### Obras impressas

* Catharine Trotter Cockburn: Philosophical Writings. Ed. Patricia Sheridan. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2006. ISBN 1-55111-302-3. $24.95 CDN.
* “Love at a Loss: or, Most Votes Carry It.” Ed. Roxanne M. Kent-Drury. The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003. 857-902. ISBN 1-55111-581-6. $54.95 CDN.
* Olinda’s Adventures, Or, the Amours of a Young Lady. New York: AMS Press Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-404-70138-8. $22.59 CDN.

### Referências bibliográficas

* Blaydes, Sophia B. “Catharine Trotter.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists, Second Series. Ed. Paula R. Backsheider. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. 317-33.
* Buck, Claire, ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Women’s Literature. Nueva York: Prentice Hall, 1992.
* Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.
* Kelley, Anne. “Trotter, Catharine (1674?—1749).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 4 de octubre de 2006.
* Sheridan, Patricia. “Catharine Trotter Cockburn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, 2005. 10 de octubre de 2006.
* Uzgalis, Bill. “Timeline.” Universidad de Oregon. 1995. 12 de octubre de 2006.