"powerless to stop him. A popular novel by Magdalen King-Hall, ""The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton"" (1944), was loosely based on Katherine's life. A 1945 film version, with Margaret Lockwood in the lead role and James Mason as Ralph Chaplin's alter ego Jerry Jackson, broke all British box office records for the time. The film was remade in 1983 with Faye Dunaway and Alan Bates in the respective roles. Deborah Swift's young adult novel ""Shadow on the Highway"" (2014, ) is a retelling of Katherine’s story. Katherine Clements wrote ""The Silvered Heart"" (2015, ) about Katherine Ferrers."
"Katherine Ferrers Katherine Ferrers (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the ""Wicked Lady"", a female highwayman who terrorised the English county of Hertfordshire before dying from gunshot wounds sustained during a robbery. Katherine Ferrers was born on 4 May 1634 at Bayford in Hertfordshire to Knighton Ferrers and his wife, the former Katherine (or Catherine) Walters, and heiress to a considerable fortune. The Ferrers family were fervent Protestants and great favourites of both Henry VIII and Edward VI; the latter granted them extensive properties in"
"Katherine Ferrers Katherine Ferrers (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the ""Wicked Lady"", a female highwayman who terrorised the English county of Hertfordshire before dying from gunshot wounds sustained during a robbery. Katherine Ferrers was born on 4 May 1634 at Bayford in Hertfordshire to Knighton Ferrers and his wife, the former Katherine (or Catherine) Walters, and heiress to a considerable fortune. The Ferrers family were fervent Protestants and great favourites of both Henry VIII and Edward VI; the latter granted them extensive properties in"
"seventeenth-century highwaywoman, called the ""Wicked Lady"", preyed on travellers on Nomansland Common along Watling Street to the far end of Wales. This may have been Lady Katherine Ferrers of Markyate Cell 1634-1660 who was married to a detached husband Thomas Fanshaw(e) and whose body was carried across the county to be buried at Ware. By the time of an 1840 fire at the large house, a folklore rhyme had arisen: In one of the last witch trials recorded, Jane Wenham, of Walkern, was convicted of witchcraft in 1712. The accused was over the age of 70 at the time. Queen"
"most Notorious Highwaymen"" (1714), or even some 60 years after it, such as ""The Newgate Calendar"" and Richard Clutterbuck's ""The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford"" (1815–27). While it has also been proposed that the term ""wicked"" could have been applied to Katherine solely because she allowed the family estates to fall into ruin, this is unlikely since many Royalist families suffered many of the same reverses without this nomenclature being applied to them. In addition, it was Katherine's husband who controlled, and sold off, most of the Ferrers family assets; as his wife she would have been"
"Battle of St Albans was fought on Bernards Heath, and part of the conflict (the flight of the Yorkists) occurred on the common. In the 18th century, cannonballs and 25 skeletons were recovered from the site, and are believed to date from the battle. In the 17th century brigands and footpads preyed upon travellers around the common, the most famous of which was the ""Wicked Lady"", a highwaywoman claimed, after her death, to have been Lady Katherine Ferrers of Markyate. Ferrers Lane, which runs through the middle of the common, takes its name from her, and her exploits are the"
"nickname is thought to have originated from her working at a bowling alley in Chesterfield Street near Park Lane. (Skittles is the game which evolved into bowling.) At other times she was known as ""Mrs Behrens"" and ""Mrs Baillie"", even though she is not thought to have married. Her classical beauty was matched by her skill as a horsewoman, for which she was almost equally renowned. In the 1860s the fascinating sight of Catherine riding on Rotten Row in Hyde Park drew huge crowds of sightseers. Aristocratic ladies copied the cut of her perfectly fitting ""Princess"" riding habit, and she"
"Lady Katherine Ferrers, the wife of the major landowner in Markyate on the main London–Birmingham road. The film was loosely remade by Michael Winner as ""The Wicked Lady"" in 1983. Caroline (Patricia Roc) invites her beautiful, green-eyed friend Barbara (Margaret Lockwood) to her upcoming wedding to wealthy landowner and local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton (Griffith Jones). A scheming Barbara soon has Sir Ralph totally entranced. Caroline, wishing only his happiness, stands aside, and even allows Barbara to persuade her to be the maid of honour so as to lessen the scandal of the abrupt change of brides. At the wedding"
"Volunteers in 1804. Finchley Common is most associated with highwaymen. Its reputation was such that Sir Gilbert Elliott, Earl of Minto, stated in a letter to his wife that he would not ""trust my throat on Finchley Common in the dark"", and victims included great men such as Edmund Burke in 1774. It is said that Ralph Chaplin, the lover of Lady Katherine Ferrers “the Wicked Lady”, was caught on Finchley Common (c.1660). There were certainly robberies committed before this date but the first crime in which Finchley Common is referred to in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey is"
"Catherine Montour Catherine Montour, also known as Queen Catherine (died after 1791), was a prominent Iroquois leader living in ""Queanettquaga,"" a Seneca village of ""Sheaquaga"", informally called Catharine's Town, in western New York. She has often been confused with Elizabeth ""Madame"" Montour, her aunt or grandmother who was a noted interpreter and adviser to the governor, and with ""Queen Esther"" Montour, usually described as her sister. Several places in western New York were later named in her honor, after most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands and were driven out of the region. Catherine was likely"
"with Katherine Ferrers long after her death not through any nefarious actions on her part, but through confusion with the ""Wicked"" Lord Ferrers, who was not related to her. The last member of the House of Lords hanged in England, the ""wicked"" Laurence Shirley, Earl Ferrers, was executed at Tyburn for the murder of his manservant in 1760, one hundred years after Katherine's death. Cussans notes that there is no contemporary mention of her career and death as a highwayman in histories published before the 4th Earl Ferrers's execution, such as Alexander Smith's ""Complete History of the Lives of the"
"Katherine FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond Katherine FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond (c. 1504 – 1604) was a noblewoman of the Anglo-Norman FitzGerald dynasty in Ireland. English writers of the Tudor period, including Sir Walter Raleigh, helped popularise ""the old Countess of Desmond"" as a nickname for her, due to her longevity. One estimate placed her age at death in excess of 120 years. Another ranged as high as 140. Most likely she lived to about 100. A recent biography of the countess suggested that Katherine was at least 90 when she died. Lady Desmond was the daughter of Sir John FitzGerald,"
"later in Glenns Ferry, and was buried in Mountain Home. Kitty Wilkins Katherine Caroline Wilkins (May 15, 1857 – October 8, 1936), aka Kitty or Kittie, was a horse breeder at the turn of the 20th century known as the ""Horse Queen of Idaho."" She was the only American woman at that time whose livelihood was based solely on the trade. The Wilkins Horse Company at Bruneau's Diamond Ranch supplied thousands of horses for customers all over North America. Kitty Wilkins was Western born and raised. Her parents, John R. and Laura (Smith) Wilkins emigrated by wagon train to Oregon"
"Catalina de Erauso Catalina de Erauso (in Spanish) or Katalina Erauso (in Basque), also known in Spanish as La Monja Alférez (English, ""The Nun Lieutenant"") (San Sebastián, Spain, 10 February 1592 — Cuetlaxtla (near Orizaba), New Spain, 1650), was a personality of the Basque Country, Spain and Spanish America in the first half of the 17th century. For nearly 400 years, Catalina Erauso's story has remained alive through historical studies, biographical stories, novels, movies and comics. Some sources claim Erauso was born in 1585 including her alleged autobiography of 1626. However her baptismal certificate dates her birth in February 10,"
"Hertfordshire, including Bayford, Ponsbourne, Agnells, the family mansion at Flamstead, and the manor house of Markyate Cell at Markyate. Knighton Ferrers died in 1640, and Katherine's grandfather, Sir George Ferrers, died soon after. Katherine's brother, who was the heir to the family fortunes, had died young, so by court decree in October 1640, she was appointed sole heir to her grandfather's estates. Her widowed mother married Sir Simon Fanshawe later that same year. The Fanshawe family were committed Royalists, and when the Civil War broke out in 1642, Simon, his new wife and stepdaughter joined King Charles I in Oxford,"
"Katherine Philips Katherine or Catherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as ""The Matchless Orinda"", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's ""Pompée"" and ""Horace"", and for her editions of poetry after her death. In 1663, her adaptation of Pompey. She was highly regarded by many writers of 17th century literature including John Dryden and John Keats as being influential. Born in London, Katherine Philips was daughter of John Fowler, a Presbyterian cloth merchant of Bucklersbury, London, and of Katherine Oxenbridge, whose father worked"
"as Owen was engaged at the time and planned to move to Dublin with one Marcus Trevor. This attempt would ultimately prove unsuccessful. Katherine Philips Katherine or Catherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as ""The Matchless Orinda"", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's ""Pompée"" and ""Horace"", and for her editions of poetry after her death. In 1663, her adaptation of Pompey. She was highly regarded by many writers of 17th century literature including John Dryden and John Keats as being influential. Born"
"had other addresses, judging from a court case in which she was sued for non-payment of a tailoring bill. The other addresses may have been properties she owned. Two were hotels, one in France. Catherine Walters died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her home at 15 South Street, Mayfair, and was buried in the graveyard of the Franciscan Monastery in Crawley, West Sussex.. In 1864 a London publisher, George Vickers, brought out three fictionalised biographies: ""Anonyma: or, Fair but Frail""; ""Skittles: the Biography of a Fascinating Woman""; and ""Skittles in Paris"". The author was possibly William Stephens Hayward, or Bracebridge"
"Kitty Wilkins Katherine Caroline Wilkins (May 15, 1857 – October 8, 1936), aka Kitty or Kittie, was a horse breeder at the turn of the 20th century known as the ""Horse Queen of Idaho."" She was the only American woman at that time whose livelihood was based solely on the trade. The Wilkins Horse Company at Bruneau's Diamond Ranch supplied thousands of horses for customers all over North America. Kitty Wilkins was Western born and raised. Her parents, John R. and Laura (Smith) Wilkins emigrated by wagon train to Oregon City, Oregon not long after their marriage in 1853. According"
"Her name was occasionally misspelled as Katherine in many letters. The Loring family were descendants of Thomas Loring, who came to Hingham, MA, from Devonshire, England, and they were influential in Massachusetts. Her grandfather Charles Greeley Loring was a landowner in Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts, which was passed on to Loring's father, Caleb, who built a new house in 1852. The family often moved between the Prides Crossing home, Burnside, and the family house in Boston until 1872, when they all moved permanently to Beverly. In the spring of 1888, while travelling to Florida and South Carolina with her father"
"Catherine of Guelders Catherine of Guelders (ca. 1440 – Guelders, January 25, 1497), was regent of the Duchy of Guelders between 1477 and 1492. Catherine of Guelders was the fourth and youngest child of Arnold, Duke of Guelders (1410-1473) and Catherine of Cleves (1417–1479).<br> Until 1477, she led an inconspicuous life, in the shadow of her brother Adolf, at war with his father, and her sisters Mary, married to King James II of Scotland and Margaret, married to Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern.<br> Despite efforts by her father, no suitable husband was found for Catherine.<br> 17th century theories that"
"Carrie Adell Strahorn Carrie Adell Strahorn (January 1, 1854 – 1925) was an American explorer and pioneer. She has been called ""The mother of the West"" and ""The queen of the pioneers"". She was one of the first white woman to make a complete tour of Yellowstone Park. In 1911, she published Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, a memoir of her travels. Strahorn was born in Merengo, Illinois on January 1, 1854. Her father was a surgeon in the American Civil War, and was relatively wealthy. His wealth allowed him to send Strahorn to University of Michigan and abroad to"
"front of the meeting house, with women on one side and men on the other, all on the same raised platform. Women ministers were active from the earliest days. In 1657, Mary Howgill, one of the Valiant Sixty (an early group of Quaker preachers), rebuked Oliver Cromwell for persecuting Quakers, saying, ""When thou givest account of all those actions, which have been acted by thee, ... as my soul lives, these things will be laid to thy charge."" Later, in 1704, Esther Palmer of Flushing, Long Island, and Susanna Freeborn of Newport, Rhode Island, set out on a 3,230 mile"
"Catherine Walters Catherine Walters, also known as ""Skittles"" (13 June 1839 – 4 August 1920), was a fashion trendsetter and one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London. Walters' benefactors are rumoured to have included intellectuals, leaders of political parties, aristocrats and a member of the British Royal Family. Catherine Walters was born the third of five children at 1 Henderson Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, grew up in the Liverpool area and moved to London before her twentieth birthday. Her father was Edward Walters, a customs official, who died in 1864. Her mother was Mary Ann Fowler. Her"
"issue then becomes one of paternity, since a pregnancy of four months duration, during those times, could not have produced a child that would have survived. While it is ""no great distance from Ware"" (some 13 miles), the child in question was not still buried in the same location as Katherine. With Katherine's death the Ferrers line died out; in the following year Thomas Fanshawe, who had been created a Knight of the Bath by Charles II, disposed of the bulk of the Ferrers' family property that had originally been granted to Katherine's ancestors by Edward VI. Described by the"
"cruelty, which was rare for the time. She would not accept her husband's drinking and womanizing, and was particularly upset by his illegitimate children. The old family steward, Johnson, may have given evidence on Mary's behalf and was afterwards tasked with collecting rents due to her. She was married again, on 28 March 1769, to Lord Frederick Campbell. Mary later died in a fire at her country seat, Coomb Bank, Kent, on 25 July 1807. The Ferrers' estates were then vested in trustees; Ferrers secured the appointment of an old family steward named Johnson, as receiver of rents. This man"
"a professional life, she was described by her daughter in adulthood as a person ""whom I wish to resemble in every way."" Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (February 26, 1849 – July 22, 1883) was a female author and feminist during America's Gilded Age. She is also simply known as Sherwood Bonner, which was her pen name. Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on February 26, 1849 to a wealthy and aristocratic family, Bonner turned tradition on its head and left both husband and child behind to pursue her literary dreams. Achieving nothing more than a pleasant mediocrity"
"built and the initials of the owners/builders. She appeared to live alone, and was, as such, probably wrinkled and a ""little odd"", which is why she was considered to be a witch by many of the local country-folk. No one knows when she died, and the only “definite?” fact is that she lived in the seventeenth century and is thought to be buried in the corner of a field at Greenhead, near Carterway Heads. She is mentioned in “Ode to the River Derwent”, a poem of some 40 verses by John Carr which appears in The Bishoprick Garland of 1834"
"and only daughter, of seven. Her father, William Emmes, was a cordwainer and a zealous Puritan; her mother was Dutch and a Puritan as well, so Katherine was raised in a very religious household. Katherine was married to Philip Stubbs, an English pamphleteer and publisher, in 1586 at the age of fifteen. Katherine’s father had already died by that time. Mr. Stubbs had ""recently gained some notoriety by rebuking the world, and England in particular, for its backsliding with his tract ""The Anatomy of Abuses"","" but, because of her father’s death, she most likely had to be married off quickly"
"the common is a link, in some historical records, with the legend of the famous highwaywoman, the ""Wicked Lady"", generally believed (although only after her death) to have been Lady Katherine Ferrers. Gustardwood common Gustardwood common is an area of common land just north of the village of Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The bulk of the common is now used by the Mid-Herts Golf Club, which was formed in 1892. The first 9-hole course on Gustardwood common was officially opened for play in February 1893. It is one of the earlier golf courses in England. Additional land was purchased"
"honor called, ""Our Kate"", in his collection ""Songs of Lake Geneva"" (1882). Margaret Wetterer wrote a children's book called ""Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express"" in 1991 telling Kate's story. It was featured in an episode of the children's television program ""Reading Rainbow"". Kate Shelley Catherine Carroll ""Kate"" Shelley (December 12, 1863 – January 21, 1912) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge. She was also one of the few women to have a train named after her, the ""Kate"
"passed into the language as a descriptor for a day when fortunes are lost. Letitia Derby (or Smith, the sources are unclear) was a woman of unclear origins who, prior to being discovered by the royal circle, was fairly definitely a member of the working class in the Drury Lane district, and possibly a servant in a brothel. Subsequently she befriended and was probably the mistress of ""Sixteen String Jack"" Rann. After that notorious highwayman was hanged in 1774, she became the mistress of the Duke of York. Soon enough, however, her looks – and her seat on a horse"
"hospitable woman, died."" "" Katherine Fitzgerald, Lady of Hy-Carbery Katherine Fitzgerald (c.1452-1506) was an Anglo-Irish Noblewoman of the Geraldine's dynasty, during the 15th century. At the time of her birth, her family was one of the most influential houses of Ireland. By her husband, her married name was Mac Carthaigh Riabhach and she became the princess of Carbery from 1477 to 1506. For her own pleasure, she erected two castles. She was the ancestor of many political people including Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States; Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, 63rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Prince Albert"