Josephine Amelia Perkins (1818 in Devonshire – ?) was a British horse thief and prisoner. She wrote The Female Prisoner: A Narrative of the Life and Singular Adventures Of Josephine Amelia Perkins and A Demon in Female Apparel: Narrative of the Notorious Female Horse Thief, Again in Prison and For Life. In 1839, Perkins was the first woman convicted of horse stealing.
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1818 (age 207)
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