Catharine Trotter
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Since the late twentieth century
has been known chiefly for her early writings, shortly before and after the year 1700, which include tragedies, poetry, a comedy, and a short fiction. Though this first phase of her career overlaps with a later one (under two different names, birth-name and married name), they are clearly distinguishable. Characteristic of the later phase, during which she published as Catharine Cockburn, are weighty works of philosophy and theology, and familiar letters. Some of her letters reflect her intellectual pursuits; her personal and domestic letters have only recently come to notice.- BirthName: Catharine TrotterThe spelling Catherine is also used.
- Nicknames: Calista, Daphne,Sappho Ecossaiseused both these names for (the first one after one of her own heroines).This name was bestowed on her in Germany.
- Married: Cockburnwrote all her dramatic works while her name was Trotter, but published some of her later works as Cockburn.
- Pseudonyms: Olinda; A Young Lady; Constantia; the Author of . . . .wrote to her future husband under the name of Constantia, one of her own dramatic heroines.