Mary Frith, 17th-Century London's Smoking, Thieving, Foul-Mouthed "Roaring Girl"
One of early modern Britain ’s most memorable underworld characters , Mary Frith flouted convention at every turn . Far from being the weak , timid womanhood who abide at home taking aid of children asElizabethan idealsdemanded , she take to the streets and stagecoach , making a spectacle of herself that earned both prescribed opprobrium and not a little public wonder . Mary was have a name for herself while she was barely out of her teens ....