What was the nickname of the legendary 17th Century highwaywoman Katherine Ferrers?
Katherine Ferrers powerless to stop him. A popular novel by Magdalen King-Hall, "The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton" (1944), was loosely based on Katherine's life. A 1945 film version, with Margaret Lockwood in the lead role and James Mason as Ralph Chaplin's alter ego Jerry Jackson, broke all British box office records for the time. The film was remade in 1983 with Faye Dunaway and Alan Bates in the respective roles. Deborah Swift's young adult novel "Shadow on the Highway" (2014, ) is a retelling of Katherine’s story. Katherine Clements wrote "The Silvered Heart" (2015, ) about Katherine Ferrers.
Katherine Ferrers Katherine Ferrers Katherine Ferrers (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the "Wicked Lady", a female highwayman who terrorised the English county of Hertfordshire before dying from gunshot wounds sustained during a robbery. Katherine Ferrers was born on 4 May 1634 at Bayford in Hertfordshire to Knighton Ferrers and his wife, the former Katherine (or Catherine) Walters, and heiress to a considerable fortune. The Ferrers family were fervent Protestants and great favourites of both Henry VIII and Edward VI; the latter granted them extensive properties in