Catherine a story - Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863 (Floating Press, 2010)
Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 3, 2011). - "First published in 1839"--T.p. verso
Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended. A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as Moll Flanders