The National Enquirer
17th Century Moll Frith edition

Woman Seen Smoking in Fleet Street!
“I’m The First, But I Won’t Be the Last,” Says Unrepentant Woman
 

Gunpowder Plot?
Mary Frith Gets a Bang Out of Smoking Habit

Shanghai Mary!
Woman Escapes
Shanghai Attempt! 
Her Eyewitness
Account Inside!

Mary Frith Tells Her
Own Fortune
It Says, “I’m for real!”

Moll Frith Arrested as Fence!
WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE EVIDENCE?

Moll a Cutpurse? 
“Not I!” Claims She.

Moll Cutpurse in New Play!
“This is the real me.”
Says Underworld Queen

Roaring Girl Arrested Again!
She Sang on Stage of Fortune Theatre! 

                                                   
Roaring Girl Arrested
For Dressing Like Roaring Boy

Moll Does Penance at St. Paul’s
Witness Says She Was Drunk!

Playwright Dekker
Slams Moll!
Of Former Friend, Moll Says “#*%@ Him!”

Moll in Trouble Again!
Swears She Didn’t Swear!

Moll Arrested For
Drunkenness!
Hit with Fine –
Swears Revenge

General Robbed and Shot!
What Does Mad Moll Know?

The Roaring Magistrate?
Read the True Story!

Moll Arrested Again!
This Time She Wrote a Book!

Patriot Cutpurse!                                                                                                            The Mad Moll Formula for Restoration

Moll a Madame?
What Really Goes on in That House?

Moll Cutpurse Dead at 74!
Read The Rumor That John Milton Wrote Her Epitaph

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The basis for this is a two page handout for a Continuing Studies class at Stanford University formatted to resemble The National Enquirer. Salacious headlines screamed at readers revealing the sordid life of Mary Firth, often called Moll, for our study of The Roaring Girl. The format of this site does not accommodate the Enquirer look, which is lamely reproduced here.