The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer

Oliné Keese; Jenna Mead (Editor)

Caroline Leakey, writing as Oline Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel's title de...