The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd : forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London / Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen.

By:

Andrew, Donna T, 1945-

Contributor(s):

McGowen, Randall, 1948-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 346 p.)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520923706
0520923707
1597348058
9781597348058

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Perreaus and Mrs. RuddDDC classification:

345.42/0263 21

LOC classification:

KD372.P47

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: To the Hanging Tree; Two: Alarming Crimes and Unsettling Stories; Three: The Press and the Case; Four: Passing Fair; Five: Passion and Its Discontents; Six: Private Credit and Public Confidence; Seven: Debating the Law; Eight: Writing Her Life: Mrs. Rudd's LIfe Stories; Nine: Mrs. Rudd on Trial; Ten "If Innocents Should Suffer"; Eleven: Looking Back; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Summary: This is the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. The Perreau-Rudd case preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. The authors offer a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-334) and index.

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This is the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. The Perreau-Rudd case preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. The authors offer a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents.

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