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Posted on October 5, 2023

This Week on Dispatches: Jane Strachan on Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan’s Descent from Riches to Rags

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews attorney and JAR contributor Jane Strachan on her two-part series about the descent from riches to rags of Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan and the memoir she penned describing her life. New episodes of Dispatches are available for free every Saturday evening (Eastern United States Time) on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, […]

by Editors

Posted on September 19, 2023

Margaret (Moncrieffe) Coghlan: The Descent from Riches to Rags (Part One of Two)

In 1805, Margaret (Moncrieffe) Coghlan’s options were running out. For more than a decade, she had been back and forth to the King’s Bench prison in London, known then as debtors prison, with a reputation for filth, overcrowding and typhus outbreaks. She had written a lengthy letter to King George III, seeking a pension for […]

by Jane Strachan

Posted on January 7, 2014August 28, 2016

Top 10 Women Writers

Although half the population was female, writings by women make up only a small portion of the available literature on the American Revolution. There are, nonetheless, quite a number of published tracts to inform and entertain the researcher seeking a woman’s perspective on the events of the era. This list presents only a few, in […]

by Don N. Hagist

Tag: Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan

This Week on Dispatches: Jane Strachan on Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan’s Descent from Riches to Rags

Margaret (Moncrieffe) Coghlan: The Descent from Riches to Rags (Part One of Two)

Top 10 Women Writers