Mary Wade’s story will take the My Story reader on a long and perilous journey, beginning in London’s slums at the end of the eighteenth century, taking in the Georgian criminal underworld and imprisonment in Newgate prison, and culminating in a voyage to Australia on board a prison ship, after our heroine has been spared the ultimate penalty for her small crime.
Valerie Wilding has returned to Old Bailey records to add a thoroughly researched, rivetingly told episode in history to this exciting series.
Ages 8+
