Fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Catchpole, who was convicted of theft in England in 1797 and sentenced to transportation to Australia for life.
The History of Margaret Catchpole, A Suffolk Girl is a biography by Richard Cobbold. Catchpole was a Suffolk servant girl, chronicler and deportee to an Austral
Margaret Catchpole was born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. A spirited woman, she meets her match in Will Laud, 'hell-born babe' and wande