Claghorn,
Charles Eugene. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: A Biographical Dictionary. Boston, MA: Scarecrow Press, 1992.1. Reference Materials
2. American Revolutionary War
Claghorn,
Charles Eugene. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: A Biographical Dictionary. Boston, MA: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Surveillant 2.5: "Among these 600 biographies of women who performed patriotic acts are details on those who spied for the Americans."
Mahoney,
M.H. Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
Miller, IJI&C 8.2: "Mahoney has written a wonderful and marvelously interesting volume.... There are 151 biographies in the book..., and no female spies of note are omitted. Mahoney's coverage is remarkable, both in terms of time span and geography.... At least ten entries are from times preceding 1950 and from outside the United States.... There is excellent coverage of American history.... Mahoney's ... summarizations of his subjects' often involved and complicated lives and careers are exemplary.... This is an absolutely outstanding book."
Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: A Biographical Dictionary. Boston, MA: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Surveillant 2.5: "Among these 600 biographies of women who performed patriotic acts are details on those who spied for the Americans."
Currie, Catherin. Anna Smith Strong and the Setauket Spy Ring. Port Jefferson Station, NY: C.W. Currie, 1992.
Surveillant 3.4/5: "Biography of New York State Spies in Setauket. Anna Smith Strong was born in 1740 and worked as a spy in the American Revolution."
Hoehling, Adolph A. Women Who Spied. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1967. Women Who Spied: True Stories of Feminine Espionage. Lanham, MD: Madison via University Press of America, 1992. 1993. [pb]
See "Spy for the Continental Army: Lydia Darragh, 1777."
Randall, Willard Sterne. "Mrs. Benedict Arnold." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 4, no. 2 (Winter 1992): 80-89.
"After the Americans reoccupied [Philadelphia], and before she was nineteen, Peggy [Shippen] married Military Governor Benedict Arnold and helped him to plot the boldest treason in American history.... Peggy Shippen was, new research reveals, the highest-paid spy of the American Revolution.... [S]he actively engaged in the Arnold conspiracy at every step."
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Patience Wright: American Artist and Spy in George III's London. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976.
Constantinides: The focus here is on Wright's "social and artistic life. There is very little on any espionage she performed on behalf of the American revolutionary cause."
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