Beware of counterfeits
Dror Wahrman: 18th-century fakery, 6 June 2002
The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in 18th-Century London
by Donna Andrew and Randall McGowen.
California, 346 pp., £24.95, November 2001,0 520 22062 5 Show More
by Donna Andrew and Randall McGowen.
California, 346 pp., £24.95, November 2001,
The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers
by Sarah Bakewell.
Chatto, 321 pp., £17.99, April 2001,9780701171094 Show More
by Sarah Bakewell.
Chatto, 321 pp., £17.99, April 2001,
“... James Boswell’s arms, and then into a life of poverty and relative obscurity. Donna Andrew and Randall McGowen’s The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd and Sarah Bakewell’s The Smart both tell the same story, but approach it in very different ways. Bakewell’s eloquent version reads rather like an 18th-century romance. Andrew and ... ”
