The adventures of a Victorian con woman : the life and crimes of Mrs Gordon Baillie
Davis, Mick, 1942-2020
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Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as Annie, was born into poverty in the small Scottish fishing town of Peterhead in 1848. Illegitimate and illiterate her beauty and intelligence nevertheless enabled her to overcome her circumstances and become a charming and wealthy socialite living a life of luxury whilst raising money for worthy causes and charitable works. Behind her supposed perfect and contented life, however, lay one of the most notorious and compulsive swindlers of the Victorian Age. Her fraudulent fundraising and larger-than-life schemes played out across 4 decades and 3 continents, Europe, America and Australasia, and involved land owners crofters, aristocrats, politicians, bankers, socialist revolutionaries, operatic stars and the cultural icons of the day. But at the turn of the 20th century, her notoriety was such that she took refuge in America and disappeared.
Main title:
The adventures of a Victorian con woman : the life and crimes of Mrs Gordon Baillie / Mick Davis, David Lassman.
Author:
Davis, Mick, 1942-, authorLassman, David, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2020.
Collation:
ix, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781526764867 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.163092
LC class:
HV6248
Local class:
364.163F2 BAI364.163092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2784518