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The Impostress - The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson (Paperback)
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The Impostress - The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson (Paperback)
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List price R405
Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R73 (18%)
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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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