Note 6 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
See DNB, s. v. "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "Catharine Trotter, the First of the Bluestockings," Fortnightly Review, N. S., No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "Catherine Trotter—'the Scots Sappho,'" Scots Magazine, XXXIII (1940), 305-314. The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's The Works of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn (2 vols., 1751), including letters and a prefatory biography.