Narrative

16. Not all tales of young girls making their way in life were of the religious tract sort, however. Pretty Peggy of Derby, for example, is not Mary – the milkmaid or the collier girl. The Virtuous Maid of the Inn; or the Entertaining History of Margaret Saunders, Commonly Called Pretty Peggy of Derby (Manchester: Swindells, c.1812?) is a tale of virtue, but also a romance without the religious trappings of the religious tract. As such, chapbooks could teach without being didactic or religious.