Mary Baker

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…