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Impostress

- The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson
Af: R.J. Clarke Engelsk Paperback

Impostress

- The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson
Af: R.J. Clarke Engelsk Paperback
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"Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be owing to the ill usage of her father […] She attempts to borrow money of [sic] waiters, servants, and chaise boys, and offers to leave something in pawn with them to the value. Her name is supposed to be Sarah Wilson." - London Evening-Post, 30 October 1766

Beginning in her late teens, Sarah Wilson travelled alone all over England, living on her wits, inventing new identities, and embroidering stories to fool her victims into providing money and fine clothes. When her crimes eventually caught up with her, she was transported to America – where she reinvented herself in the guise of the Queen’s sister and began a new set of adventures at the onset of the American War of Independence. Using original research, newspaper reports and court records, this is the story of ‘the greatest Impostress of the present Age’: a real-life Moll Flanders who created a remarkable series of lives for herself on both sides of the Atlantic.

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"Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be owing to the ill usage of her father […] She attempts to borrow money of [sic] waiters, servants, and chaise boys, and offers to leave something in pawn with them to the value. Her name is supposed to be Sarah Wilson." - London Evening-Post, 30 October 1766

Beginning in her late teens, Sarah Wilson travelled alone all over England, living on her wits, inventing new identities, and embroidering stories to fool her victims into providing money and fine clothes. When her crimes eventually caught up with her, she was transported to America – where she reinvented herself in the guise of the Queen’s sister and began a new set of adventures at the onset of the American War of Independence. Using original research, newspaper reports and court records, this is the story of ‘the greatest Impostress of the present Age’: a real-life Moll Flanders who created a remarkable series of lives for herself on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750989923
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0750989920
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2019
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2019
Forfatter(e): R.J. Clarke
Forfatter(e) R.J. Clarke


Kategori Den Amerikanske Revolution


ISBN-13 9780750989923


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 196mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 1 maj 2019


Oplagsdato 1 maj 2019


Forlag The History Press Ltd

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