Bibliograph

Confident women, swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion, Tori Telfer

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Confident women, swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion, Tori Telfer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-336)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Confident women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1156163841

Responsibility statement

Tori Telfer

Sub title

swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion

Summary

The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-- or worst. Telfer introduces us to a host of lady swindlers whose scams ranged from the outrageous to the deadly. Among them: In 1700s Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. Cassie Chadwick got banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. In the 1970s teenager Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And the scams continue.... -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Charming -- The glitterati. Jeanne de Saint-Rémy ; Cassie Chadwick ; Wang Ti -- The seers. The spiritualists ; Fu Futtam ; Rose Marks -- The fabulists. The Anastasias ; Roxie Ann Rice ; The tragediennes ; Bonny Lee Bakley -- The drifters. Lauretta J. Williams ; Margaret Lydia Burton Sante Kimes -- Conclusion: Confident

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