Moll Cutpurse: Her True History

Mary Frith, or Moll Cutpurse, lived between 1584 and 1659 in the City of London.  We know little about her personal life - except that she claimed to be uninterested in sex - but this was not a period that discussed sex or love between women so it is impossible to tell.MOLL CUTPURSE by Ellen Galford is a novel that takes full advantage of what we know about women's lives in seventeenth century England to explore all the very real possibilities they had and breaks with the idea that because women do not appear in the history books, they had no role in the making of the world.