Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer - Revision history

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 [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.112, 116
 [[William Groom]]. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. ''Cape Illustrated Magazine'', 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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−	''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer]]'' is a drama in three acts by Edward Stirling (1809-94)[]	+	''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer]]'' is a drama in three acts by Edward Stirling (1809-94)[http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html]

	The drama is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]'' and ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.		The drama is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]'' and ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.

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 The play by Sterling is based on the real life of Margaret Catchpole (1762–1819)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Catchpole], a Suffolk servant girl, who  worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and later escaping from Ipswich Gaol. Following her capture, she was transported to the Australian penal colony of New South Wales, where she remained for the rest of her life, becoming famous for her chronicles of the convict experience. Her story became the subject of a novel, ''The History of Margaret Catchpole'' (London, 1845), by was Rev. Richard Cobbold, the son of her former employers.
-This first dramatization by Edward Stirling  was performed as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'' in London at the Victoria Theatre, in 1845. The text was published as  ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]'' in  London by Thomas Duncombe (1845) and [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]].
+This first dramatization by Edward Stirling  was performed as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'' in London at the Victoria Theatre, in 1845. The text was published as  ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]'' in  London by Thomas Duncombe (1845) as ''Duncombe's acting edition of the British theatre'', no. 414.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer]]'' is a drama in three acts by Edward Stirling (1809-94)[]
-The drama is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, Heroine of Suffolk, or The Visissitudes of Real Life]]'' and  ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.
+The drama is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]''  and  ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.
 ==The original text==

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-''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer]]'' is a play by Sterling
+''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer]]'' is a drama in three acts by Edward Stirling (1809-94)[]
-The is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, Heroine of Suffolk,or The Visissitudes of Real Life]]'' and  ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.
+The drama is also found under various other (rather long and clumsy), titles, such as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, or The Female Horse-stealer of Suffolk]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'', ''[[Margaret Catchpole, Heroine of Suffolk, or The Visissitudes of Real Life]]'' and  ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]''.
 ==The original text==
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 The play by Sterling is based on the real life of Margaret Catchpole (1762–1819)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Catchpole], a Suffolk servant girl, who  worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and later escaping from Ipswich Gaol. Following her capture, she was transported to the Australian penal colony of New South Wales, where she remained for the rest of her life, becoming famous for her chronicles of the convict experience. Her story became the subject of a novel, ''The History of Margaret Catchpole'' (London, 1845), by was Rev. Richard Cobbold, the son of her former employers.
-This first dramatization by Edward Stirling  was performed as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'' in London at the Victoria Theatre, in 1845. The text was published as  ''[[Margaret Catchpole: The Heroine of Suffolk or The Vicissitudes of Real Life]]'' in  London by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]].
+This first dramatization by Edward Stirling  was performed as ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Female Horse-stealer, or The life and Adventures of a Suffolk girl!]]'' in London at the Victoria Theatre, in 1845. The text was published as  ''[[Margaret Catchpole, The Heroine of Suffolk! or The Vicissitudes of Real Life!]]'' in  London by Thomas Duncombe (1845) and [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]].
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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	https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/margaret-catchpole-female-horse-stealer-or-life-and-adventures-suffolk-girl		https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/margaret-catchpole-female-horse-stealer-or-life-and-adventures-suffolk-girl
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		+	http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html

	[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)		[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)