TY - BOOK AU - Andrew,Donna T. AU - McGowen,Randall TI - The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London SN - 9780520923706 AV - KD372.P47 U1 - 345.42/0263 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Perreau, Daniel, KW - Perreau, Robert, KW - Rudd, Margaret Caroline, KW - Trials (Forgery) KW - England KW - London KW - Forgers KW - Great Britain KW - Procès (Faux) KW - Angleterre KW - Londres KW - Faussaires KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - LAW KW - Criminal Law KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Trial and arbitral proceedings KW - Trials, litigation, etc KW - gtlm KW - lcgft KW - Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-334) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=90567 ER -