ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the two biographies of Voss, the most detailed being an anonymous publication entitled The German Princess Revived: or The London Jilt of 1684. It comes under the category of criminal biography that accounts of the petty thieves and tricksters, Jenny Voss and Mary Carleton. Although Voss's biography, is an important counter-balance to the exuberant fantasies of freedom and irresponsibility portrayed as the life of Voss in The London Jilt. Similarly, Carleton's impersonation of rank while enabling her to dupe willing victims also created for her. The chapter serves a crucial function within the genre of rogue literature by providing an overarching moral framework which ensured that criminals paid the penalty at Tyburn, where they were left 'in the Armes of Death to pass into a vast Eternity' for a life lived beyond the boundaries of conventional society.
