TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thackeray,William Makepeace
TI  - Catherine: A Story
AV  - PR 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Executions and executioners -- Fiction
KW  - Women murderers -- Fiction
KW  - Hayes, Catharine Hall, 1690-1726 -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_(Thackeray_novel); Release date is 1999-11-01; Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Catherine: A Story" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel serialized between 1839 and 1840. Written as a deliberate critique of popular crime fiction that romanticized criminals, Thackeray based his story on Catherine Hayes, a real eighteenth-century woman executed for murdering her husband. His goal was to portray criminals as utterly vile and unredeemable. Yet despite his intentions, Thackeray developed an unexpected sympathy for his heroine, and the novel's rogues emerged as oddly appealing—a result the author considered a failure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1969
ER  -