Margaret Kemble Gage

Margaret Kemble Gage was the American-born wife of British general Thomas Gage and was later rumoured to have supplied patriot leaders with military intelligence. The surviving record places this person within the historical events represented in Ann Rinaldi’s fiction.

Historical fiction may reconstruct private conversations, motives and emotional responses that sources do not preserve. The relationship is included because the person is portrayed under a real historical identity, while invented details should not be treated as documentary biography.