作者: Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) was an English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher. She wrote on moral philosophy, theological tracts, and had a voluminous correspondence. Trotter”s work addresses a range of issues including necessity, the infinitude of space, and the substance, but she focuses on moral issues. She thought that moral principles are not innate, but discoverable by each individual through the use of the faculty of reason endowed by God. Trotter was a precocious and largely self-educated young woman, who had her first novel, Olinda”s Adventures, published anonymously in 1693, when she was but 14 years old.