WOMEN IN INTELLIGENCE

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."

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. [pb] 1993.1

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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