Mary Reibey

Standard Name: Reibey, Mary
Used Form: Mary Haydock

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Other Life Event Margaret Catchpole
Nearly thirty years after her death, another woman who had been transported to Australia for horse-stealing, was deeply concerned that she was being confused with MC . Mary Reibey or Reiby came originally from a...

Timeline

8 October 1792: Mary Haydock, aged fifteen and newly transported...

Building item

8 October 1792

Mary Haydock , aged fifteen and newly transported to Sydney Cove, Australia, for trying to sell a stolen horse, wrote home to her aunt about her present unhappy situation.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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By March 1955: The same year she married Sol Cornberg, Catherine...

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By March 1955

The same year she married Sol Cornberg , Catherine Gaskin published Sara Dane, her amazingly successful novel based on the life of transported horse-thief Mary Reibey .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
53185 (9 March 1955): 10

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