Moll's mother is a convict in the Newgate prison, who is granted permission to attend to her pregnancy. Nothing else to be born, Moll is raised by a mother of welcome and his mother is deported to America. Then she goes to work as a maid for a family, and is courted by the two children. One of them, the eldest, seduces her, but convinces him to marry the child. When he dies, Moll leaves his children in the company of the in-laws, and begins to pose as a rich widow, hoping to achieve a husband that protects and gives security.
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