Catherine

Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. Catherine Hayes, a servant girl, marries badly, poisons her way through it and is burnt at Tyburn — and Thackeray, sickened by novels that made criminals romantic, wrote her deliberately repellent to spoil the taste. Born in Calcutta and sent home at five, he lost his inheritance a...