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3 unusual facts about The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole


The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole

The novel was dramatised in the play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger.

In 1845 Richard Cobbold's historical novel The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl was published, which helped make Catchpole famous, even if it did distort history.

Spencer had produced three films based on plays by Alfred Dampier under the direction of Alfred Rolfe and wanted to make a fourth.


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Charles Cozens Spencer would later make three other films based on Alfred Dampier play adaptations of novels set in colonial Australia, Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911), The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911) and The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912).

Richard Cobbold

The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl became the 1887 play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger, which formed the basis for the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912)


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