Twenty-four years after his writer mother
's death, Richard Cobbold
delivered for the benefit of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
a lecture entitled The Character of Woman, printed the same year.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Cobbold
EC
's fifth child, Richard
, born on 9 September 1797, became a clergyman and a writer (the heroine of one of whose novels was the scandalous family servant Margaret Catchpole), and he followed in...
Fictionalization
Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Cobbold
EC
wrote an epilogue for a play produced at Liverpool in 1789. She published privately her sets of Cliff Valentines, which were verses written for an annual party in 1813 and 1814. (She had...
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Texts
Cobbold, Richard. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. H. Colburn, 1845, 3 vols.
Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Facsimile of 1847 edition, Boydell Press, 1979.
Barber, Richard, and Richard Cobbold. “The Real Margaret Catchpole”. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl, Boydell Press, 1979, p. x - xviii.