Elizabeth M Adkins

However, while she later won a reprieve, she remained imprisoned in Newgate Prison throughout the autumn of 1721 where she may have met Daniel Defoe who had been visiting his friend journalist Nathaniel Mist.

In 1718, she was apprehended stealing a gold watch from a gentlewoman at St. Anne's Church, Soho and sentenced to seven years' transportation.

18th-century English person

Thief • Pickpocketer