Main Title: |
The history of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk girl / by Richard Cobbold. |
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Author: |
Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877.
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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.
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Subject: |
Catchpole, Margaret 1762-1819 Historical fiction. Women Convicts Biography Biography New South Wales
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