Margaret Catchpole, a farm labourer’s daughter born in 1762, grew up brave, quick-witted and devoted to a young smuggler named Will Laud. Richard Cobbold, whose mother employed her, tells her life as a novel: her service in an Ipswich household, her loyalty to an unworthy lover, and the daring ride to London on a stolen horse that changed her fate.
A Victorian bestseller of 1845 based on a real life, much loved in East Anglia. Download the free EPUB.