Bristol
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My personal heroine is someone I’ll never meet, but I sure wish I’d had the chance. Mary Baker, a/k/a Mary Willcocks, was a working-class woman, born in the late eighteenth century, who was reborn in 1817 as “Caraboo,” the kidnapped princess of an undiscovered Asian island. I’ve been researching and writing about Mary/Caraboo for many…
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My personal heroine is someone I’ve never met, but I sure wish I’d had the chance: Mary Baker, a/k/a Mary Willcocks, a/k/a “Princess Caraboo.” Mary was born in the late eighteenth century to an impoverished family in Somerset. In 1817 she was reborn as “Caraboo,” the shipwrecked princess of an undiscovered Asian island. I have…
Romantic Byways 