Famous Impostors

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.

Sir Edward Kelley

3 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Sir Edward Kelley

CARLYLE in his French Revolution makes a contrast between two works of imagination which mark the extremes of the forces that made for the…

Sir Edward Kelley: Prague

Kelley having worked on Dee's feelings sufficiently to secure his acquiescence, procured that Laski should be allowed to aid in such…

Sir Edward Kelley: Tribau

Before that year was out, the Bishop of Piacenza, Apostolic Nuncio at the Emperor's Court, had a decree issued that the two Englishmen…

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