Author:Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Catharine Trotter Cockburn
(1674–1749)

Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Works

Plays

• Agnes de Castro (1695/6)
• The Fatal Friendship (1698)
• Love at a Loss, or, Most Votes Carry It, later rewritten as The Honourable Deceiver; or, All Right at the Last (1700)
• The Unhappy Penitent (1701)
• The Revolution of Sweden (1706)

Books

• 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 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)

Other Works

• Calliope: The Heroick Muse: On the Death of John Dryden, Esq. as part of The Nine Muses, Or, Poems Written by Nine severall 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. (1737)

Attributed Works

• Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady (1693, also 1718 and 1724)

Works about Cockburn

• "Cockburn, Catharine," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.