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Richard Cobbold Richard Cobbold i(A14012 works by)
Born: Established: 1797 ; Died: Ceased: 1877
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon The History of Margaret Catchpole, A Suffolk Girl Richard Cobbold , 1845 London : Henry Colburn , 1845 Z1045302 1845 single work novel

Richard Cobbold's The History of Margaret Catchpole is a novelised account of the life of the woman who had once been a servant to the Cobbold family. Cobbold represents Catchpole as a tomboyish girl, daughter of a rural farm worker in Suffolk who becomes a particularly skilled horse rider.
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