Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Catharine Upton
Standard Name: Upton, Catharine
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August 1779-1783: Gibraltar sustained its longest blockade...
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August 1779-1783
Gibraltar sustained its longest blockade during its years as a British possession; writers like Mary Darwall
and Catharine Upton
chronicled this siege's acts of heroism, while Susanna Blamire
gave voice to an ordinary soldier.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
