Caraboo Hoax

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…