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The World’s Classics
CXIX
MARGARET CATCHPOLE
BY
RICHARD COBBOLD
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
HISTORY OF
MARGARET
CATCHPOLE
BY
RICHARD COBBOLD
THE HISTORY OF
MARGARET CATCHPOLE
A SUFFOLK GIRL
BY
RICHARD COBBOLD
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY CLEMENT SHORTER
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
| Richard Cobbold | |
| Born, Ipswich | 1797 |
| Died | January 5, 1877 |
‘Margaret Catchpole’ was first published in 1845. In ‘The World’sClassics’ it was first published in 1907 and reprinted in 1912.
INTRODUCTION
Three personalities interest us in reading the novel of MargaretCatchpole—the author, the heroine, and the author’s mother, in whoseservice the real Margaret Catchp