LEADER 04552nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910455794503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-92370-7 010 $a1-59734-805-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520923706 035 $a(CKB)111090860414136 035 $a(EBL)223301 035 $a(OCoLC)475927547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000220019 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220019 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10143060 035 $a(PQKB)10661663 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056011 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223301 035 $a(DE-B1597)520083 035 $a(OCoLC)70732870 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520923706 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223301 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048743 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090860414136 100 $a20001122d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd$b[electronic resource] $eforgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London /$fDonna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22062-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-334) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. To The Hanging Tree --$tTwo. Alarming Crimes And Unsettling Stories --$tThree. The Press And The Case --$tFour. Passing Fair --$tFive. Fashion And Its Discontents --$tSix. Private Credit And Public Confidence --$tSeven. Debating The Law --$tEight. Writing Her Life: Mrs. Rudd's Life Stories --$tNine. Mrs. Rudd On Trial --$tTen. "If Innocents Should Suffer" --$tEleven. Looking Back --$tEpilogue --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case-filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery-preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figures as John Wilkes, King George III, Lord Mansfield, and James Boswell, this story reveals the deep anxieties of this period of English capitalism. The case acts as a prism that reveals the hopes, fears, and prejudices of that society. Above all, this episode presents a parable of the 1770's, when London was the center of European finance and national politics, of fashionable life and tell-all journalism, of empire achieved and empire lost. The crime, a hanging offense, came to light with the arrest of identical twin brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, after the former was detained trying to negotiate a forged bond. At their arraignment they both accused Daniel's mistress, Margaret Caroline Rudd, of being responsible for the crime. The brothers' trials coincided with the first reports of bloodshed in the American colonies at Lexington and Concord and successfully competed for space in the newspapers. From March until the following January, people could talk of little other than the fate of the Perreau's and the impending trial of Mrs. Rudd. The participants told wildly different tales and offered strikingly different portraits of themselves. The press was filled with letters from concerned or angry correspondents. The public, deeply divided over who was guilty, was troubled by evidence that suggested not only that fair might be foul, but that it might not be possible to decide which was which. While the decade of the 1770's has most frequently been studied in relation to imperial concerns and their impact upon the political institutions of the day, this book draws a different portrait of the period, making a cause célèbre its point of entry. Exhaustively researched and brilliantly presented, it offers both a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents of the period. 606 $aTrials (Forgery)$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aForgers$zGreat Britain 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTrials (Forgery) 615 0$aForgers 676 $a345.42/0263 700 $aAndrew$b Donna T.$f1945-$01050495 701 $aMcGowen$b Randall$f1948-$01050496 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455794503321 996 $aThe Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd$92480312 997 $aUNINA