Spying on a Spy: A Dutch Agent for the British, Marguerite Wolters, 1723–1800

Seminar

This workshop is on entirely new work for me, a biography of an unknown Dutch woman called Marguerite Wolters who headed a Europe-wide spy agency for nearly twenty years (1771–1790). She sold her intelligence exclusively to the British government, who used it to consolidate its rising superpower…