Suffolk native, Margaret Catchpole, was a REAL person, and shining star of Australia’s convict history. Unfortunately the story often told about her is largely false. 25 years after her death, the Reverend Richard Cobbold wrote a fictionalised account of Margaret’s life which he declared to be a “perfectly true narrative”. It was not. Unfortunately, Cobbold’s novel, with all its embellishments and inaccuracies, still tends to be the main source for how Margaret’s life story is told today.

This episode discusses the known facts of the life of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk girl.

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