A Narrative Of A Singular Imposition Practised Upon The Benevolence Of A Lady Residing In The Vicinity Of The City Of Bristol

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Caraboo. A narrative of a singular imposition, practised ... by a young woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Illustrated with two portraits, etc

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Author : Caraboo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Caraboo

Author : John Mathew Gutch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Caraboo written by John Mathew Gutch and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pretended Asian

Author : Michael Keevak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814331989
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Pretended Asian written by Michael Keevak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pretended Asian also traces Psalmanazar's later career as a Grub Street hack writer and how his lifelong refusal to reveal his real identity - even after Europeans stopped believing he was a native of Formosa - may have rendered Psalmanazar a permanent outsider."--BOOK JACKET.

Fraudsters and Charlatans

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752486950
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Fraudsters and Charlatans written by Linda Stratmann and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1817 a young woman of exotic appearance was found wandering near Bristol. She spoke in a language that no one could understand except, seemingly a Portuguese sailor. He claimed that she was a Sumatran princess from the island of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, as she was known, became a national celebrity and lived in a grand style, entertaining many distinguished visitors. A few weeks later, however, she was exposed as Mary Baker, the daughter of a cobbler from Devonshire.Mary’s deception is one of several intriguing stories of nineteenth-century fraudsters brought to light in Linda Stratmann’s entertaining look at some of history’s greatest rogues. From bankers who forged share certificates, ruining hundreds of small investors, to ‘Louis de Rougemont’whose tales of high adventure branded him The Greatest Liar on Earth’, these riveting tales of true crime expose the seedy side of life in which corruption, avarice and scandal hold sway. .

Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities

Author : Chris Barton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101476362
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities written by Chris Barton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime, desperation, fraud, and adventure: From the impoverished young woman who enchanted nineteenth-century British society as a faux Asian princess, to the sixteen-year-old boy who "stole" a subway train in 1993, to the lonely but clever Frank Abagnale of Catch Me if You Can fame, these ten vignettes offer riveting insight into mind-blowing masquerades. Graphic panels draw you into the exploits of these pretenders, and meticulously researched details keep you on the edge of your seat. Each scene is presented in the second person, a unique point of view that literally places you inside the faker's mind. With motivations that include survival, delusion, and plain, old-fashioned greed, the psychology of deception has never been so fascinating or so close at hand.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

Author : George E. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627972
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2 written by George E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Fictions and Fakes

Author : Margaret Russett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521850789
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Fictions and Fakes written by Margaret Russett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Through a series of case-studies - beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and continuing through canonical Romanticism and its aftermath - Margaret Russett demonstrates how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them. The book examines canonical and lesser-known Romantic works alongside fakes such as Thomas Chatterton's medieval poems and 'Caraboo', the impostor-princess. Through original readings of works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Walter Scott, John Clare, and James Hogg, as well as chapters on impostors in popular culture, Russett's interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.

Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters

Author : William D. Brewer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113738719X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters written by William D. Brewer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.

The British Critic

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theories in finance

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories in finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Figures of Speech

Author : Tim Cassedy
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386132
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Tim Cassedy and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.

Temple Bar

Author : George Augustus Sala
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temple Bar written by George Augustus Sala and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Temple Bar

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Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book Temple Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language

Author : S. Higley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610056
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language written by S. Higley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it within a history of imaginary language making from medieval times to the most contemporary projects in efforts to uncover this woman s bold involvement in an intellectual and creative endeavor that spans centuries.

Bloody British History: Bristol

Author : Valerie Pitt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750960183
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Bristol written by Valerie Pitt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. 'Take that you brute!’ Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the Blitz.Bristol has one of the bloodiest histories on record. One of Britain’s key ports, it suffered devastating attacks from every possible invader, from Saxon fleets all the way through to the Nazi bombers of the Second World War. Meanwhile, adventurers, smugglers and pirates sailed from its docks, and more than half a million souls sailed in chains, victims of Bristol’s vile slave trade ended only by the Herculean efforts of the abolitionists – Bristol folk amongst them.Containing hundreds of years of history and amazing true stories of eccentric residents such as con-woman ‘Princess Caraboo’, who ended her days as a Bristol leech-seller, no Bristol bookshelf is complete without this book.

The Pretender of Pitcairn Island

Author : Tillman W. Nechtman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640370
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Pretender of Pitcairn Island written by Tillman W. Nechtman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has, until now, been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British Empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British Empire more broadly.

Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces

Author : Lesley Coote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317062043
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces written by Lesley Coote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of the literary and other textually transmitted spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin Hood ’legend’ has traditionally operated. The essays in Part Two take up issues related to performative and experiential space, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between page, stage, and lived experience. Throughout the volume, the contributors contend with, among other things, modern theories of gender, literary detective work, and the ways in which the settings that once advanced court performances now include digital gaming and the enactment of ’real’ lives.