Sin and Scandal in Edwardian Britain: Fraudster Heiress Violet Charlesworth
byThe Edwardian era was an age of reinvention and publicity, and with the right appearance, even the humblest of liars could obtain both. Like…
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The Peerage at Work
byIn the 1880s, falling rents, an agricultural depression, and taxation all conspired against the lavish lifestyles of England’s aristocracy, and ten years later, articles…
L’Affaire Humbert
byToday, society is shocked by the revelation of Bernard L. Madoff’s “Ponzi Scheme,” and many sources compare his fraud to that of Richard Whitney….