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Main Title: The history of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk girl / by Richard Cobbold.
Author: Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877.
Year: [1890?].
Collation: 166 pages : hardback ; 22 cm.
Summary: Margaret Catchpole was a fascinating real-life figure who was born in Suffolk and was later deported to Australia as a criminal in 1800.

This fictionalized account of her life is a rip-roaring adventure from start to finish, detailing Catchpole's exploits as a horse thief, escape artist, and amateur historian and writer in her own right.
Subject: Catchpole, Margaret 1762-1819
Historical fiction.
Women
Convicts
Biography
Biography
New South Wales
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Fiction Stacks 820 COB.R HIS Available