The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd : forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London
This is the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. The Perreau-Rudd case preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. The authors offer a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents
eBook, English, ©2001
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2001