Bram Stoker – Women as Men Mary East
Mary East : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Women as Men Mary East by Bram Stoker 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. The condition of things has so changed that […]
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Bram Stoker – Women as Men La Maupin
La Maupin : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Women as Men La Maupin by Bram Stoker La Maupin The majority of the readers of the English-speaking race who enjoy Théophile Gautier’s fascinating romance Mademoiselle de Maupin are not aware that the heroine was a real person. The novelist has of course made […]
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Bram Stoker – Women as Men Hannah Snell
Hannah Snell : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Women as Men Hannah Snell by Bram Stoker Hannah Snell Hannah Snell is a good instance of how the life of a woman who was not by nature averse from adventure was moulded by chance in the direction which suited her individuality. Of course, […]
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Bram Stoker – Women as Men The Motive for Disguise
The Motive for Disguise : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Women as Men The Motive for Disguise by Bram Stoker The Motive for Disguise One of the commonest forms of imposture—so common that it seems rooted in a phase of human nature—is that of women who disguise themselves as men. It is […]
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Bram Stoker – The Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton
Arthur Orton : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : The Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton by Bram Stoker Arthur Orton (The Tichborne Claimant.) In the annals of crime, Arthur Orton, the notorious claimant to the rich estates and title of Tichborne, takes a foremost place; not only as the originator of one of the […]
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Bram Stoker – Witchfinder Matthew Hopkins
Matthew Hopkins : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Matthew Hopkins by Bram Stoker Matthew Hopkins There is one thing more evil than oppression in the shape of wrong-doing, and that is oppression in the guise of good. Tennyson, in one of his poems, speaks of the dishonest pharmacist who […]
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Bram Stoker – Mother Damnable
Mother Damnable : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mother Damnable by Bram Stoker Mother Damnable Owing to a want of accord among historians, the searcher after historic truth in our own day can hardly be quite sure of the identity of the worthy lady who passed under the above […]
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Bram Stoker – Medium Sir Edward Kelley
Sir Edward Kelley : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Sir Edward Kelley by Bram Stoker 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 disruption of France, Paul et Virginie and […]
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Bram Stoker – Sorceress La Voisin
La Voisin : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance La Voisin by Bram Stoker La Voisin In Paris a woman named Des Hayes Voisin, a widow who had taken up the business of a midwife, towards the end of the seventeenth century made herself notorious by the telling of fortunes. […]
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Bram Stoker – Wizard Doctor Dee
Doctor Dee : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Doctor Dee by Bram Stoker Doctor Dee Even a brief survey of the life of the celebrated “Doctor Dee,” the so-called “Wizard” of the sixteenth century, will leave any honest reader under the impression that in the perspective of history he […]
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Bram Stoker – Witchcraft Witches
Witches : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Witches by Bram Stoker Witches – The Period For convenience, the masculine offender is in demonology classed under the female designation. According to Michelet and other authorities there were ten thousand alleged witches for each alleged wizard! and anyhow there is little […]
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Bram Stoker – John Law The Mississippi Scheme
John Law : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : John Law by Bram Stoker John Law The Mississippi Scheme And Its Antecedents The great “Mississippi Scheme” which wrought havoc on the French in 1720 is the central and turning point in the history of John Law, late of Lauriston, Controller-General of Finance in […]
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