Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Mary East

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Mary East

The story of Mary East is a pitiful one, and gives a picture of the civil life of the eighteenth century which cannot be lightly forgotten…

Mary East: Bently

From the former he was excused on account of the injury to his hand from which he had never completely recovered. Regarding the other his…

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