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Episode 005: Barbara Spencer: The Young Coiner of Cripplegate
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- Jun 15, 2026
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Send us your Feedback Barbara Spencer is barely out of childhood when the world begins to shape her into something dangerous. Raised without restraint in the cramped lanes of Cripplegate, she is the kind of figure that Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals captures with unflinching clarity: a young woman too proud for servitude, too restless to stay still, drawn by temperament toward the edges of lawful life. Her drift into counterfeiting feels almost inevitable; a single act of defiance c...