Women in Espionage
General
- Breuer, William B. War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
- Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: A Biographical Dictionary. Boston, MA: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
- 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.
- Hutton, J. Bernard [Pseud.]. Women in Espionage. London: W.H. Allen, 1971. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
- Mahoney, M.H. Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
- McIntosh, Elizabeth P. The Role of Women in Intelligence. McLean, VA: Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1989.
- McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
- See also: http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/spies/, http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/spies.html, http://www.undelete.org/military/spies.html.
Belle Boyd
- Hardinge, Belle (Boyd), Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, Written by Herself. New York, Blelock & company, 1866.
- -- New editions of Boyd’s memoirs have been published as Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, ed. Curtis Caroll Davis, New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1968; and by Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
- -- In electronic form at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/boyd/menu.html.
- Scarborough, Ruth. Belle Boyd, Siren of the South. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1983.
- Sigaud, Louis Adrien. Belle Boyd, Confederate Spy. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1945.
- See also: http://www.civilwarhome.com/boydbio.htm and http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/boyd-bel.htm. On the Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, WV, see: http://www.bchs.org/civilwar.html.
Edith Cavell
Mata Hari
- Coulson, Thomas. Mata Hari: Courtesan and Spy. London: Hutchinson, 1930. New York: Harper, 1930.
- Howe, Russell Warren. Mata Hari: The True Story. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1986.
- Ostrovsky, Erika. The Rise and Fall of Mata Hari. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
- Waagenaar, Sam. The Murder of Mata Hari. London: Arthur Barker, 1964.
- Wheelwright, Julie. The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage. London: Collins & Brown, 1992.
- See also: http://www.crimelibrary.com/spies/mata_hari/ and http://www.randomhouse.com/features/spybook/spy/961113.html
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
- Burger, Nash. Confederate Spy: Rose O’Neal Greenhow. New York: Franklin Watts, 1953.
- Blackman, Ann. Wild Rose: Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Civil War Spy. New York: Random House, 2005.
- Greenhow, Rose O’Neal. My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington. London: R. Bentley, 1863.
- -- In electronic form at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/greenhow/menu.html.
- Ross, Ishbel. Rebel Rose: The Life of Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy. New York: Harper, 1954.
- See also: http://www.onealwebsite.com/roseindex.htm and http://www.kinkade.ws/cwt_alt/resources/women/r_greenhow.htm.
- For original documents from the Rose O’Neal Greenhow papers at Duke University, see: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/roseindex.html.
Harriet Tubman
- Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Originally published 1886. Reprinted under title Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People, New York: Corinth Books, 1961; Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1981.
- Conrad, Earl. Harriet Tubman. Washington: Associated Publishers, 1943.
- Petry, Ann Lane. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York, Harper Collins, 1955.
- See also: http://www.harriettubmanhome.org/ and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
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