The Perreaus And Mrs. Rudd: Forgery And Betrayal In Eighteenth-Century London by Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O. J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figures as John Wilkes, King George III, Lord Mansfield, and James Boswell, this story reveals the deep anxieties of this period of English capitalism. The case acts as a prism that reveals the hopes, fears, and prejudices of that society. Above all, this episode presents a parable of the 1770s, when London was the center of European finance and national politics, of fashionable life and tell-all journalism, of empire achieved and empire lost.

Publisher:	University of California Press
Year:	2001
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9790520220620
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy.

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SKU: 1599379
Location: True Crime