Robinson was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District.
Hatfield was exposed as an impostor, bigamist and forger, was arrested, escaped, was captured in South Wales, and was tried at Carlisle for forgery and hanged in 1803.
Mary's story captured the public imagination, and subscriptions were raised on her behalf.
He describes her as an "artless daughter of the hills" of "modest mien / And carriage marked by unexampled grace", and says that after death "She lives in peace / Upon the spot where she was born and reared / Without contamination doth she live / In quietness, without anxiety.
"[3] She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel The Maid of Buttermere,[4] which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans[5] and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009.