in Ipswich. Carol Birch's 2007 novel Scapegallows is based on Catchpole's life. Fact and fiction Rev. Richard Cobbold (son of her former employers) made Catchpole the subject of a novel, The History of Margaret Catchpole (London, 1845), which has often been reprinted. The author claims that "the public may depend upon the truth of the main features of this narrative" however some discrepancies have since come to light and some writers, including the Rev. M. G. Watkins, author of the memoir in the Dictionary of National Biography, appear to have taken this source too literally. Notable discrepancies: Education: Richard Cobbold made her speak and write as a well-educated woman throughout the book although the evidence is that she was uneducated. Marriage: He has claims that she married in 1812 however she herself claims that she was unmarried in a letter dated 2 September 1811. Year of death: He claims that she did not die until 1841, however the register of burials at Richmond states "Margaret Catchpole, aged 57 years, came prisoner in the Nile, in the year 1801. Died May 13; was buried May 14, 1819."— Henry Fulton. A popular drama based on her life, "Margaret Catchpole, the Female Horse Stealer!" was produced in London . Cobbold's book was adapted into an 1887 play, An English Lass, starring Lily Dampier as Catchpole. This play formed the basis of the 1912 film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole which starred Lottie Lyell in the title role. Cobbold's book was also adapted into a libretto by Ronald Fletcher which was set to music as the opera "Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart" by British composer Stephen Dodgson in 1979. The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole is a 1911 Australian silent film, directed by Raymond Longford and starring Lottie Lyell. Only part of the movie survives today. In 1966 Ruth Manning-Sanders published The Extraordinary Margaret Catchpole, a novel for children which concentrates on her life before she was deported. The Australian children's author, Nance Donkin (born on 7 March 1915 at Maitland, New South Wales: died age 93, on 18 April 2008 at Canterbury, Victoria) wrote Margaret Catchpole (illustrated by Edwina Bell illustrator: Sydney: Collins, 1974). This was an illustrated Young Adult or children's version of the Margaret Catchpole story, about a pioneering convict woman and her life after emancipation, derived largely from Richard Cobbold's biographical Victorian novel, The History of Margaret Catchpole (1845).