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Famous imposters Public Deposited

Famous imposters

Alternative title
  • Famous impostors
Shelf Mark/Reference Number
  • IE TCD MS 6168
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  • Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
Copyright status
  • Public domain
Date Created
  • created 1910
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Abstract
  • IE TCD MS 6168 is Bram Stoker’s Famous Imposters; an autograph manuscript, written and dated February-July 1910, with an unpublished preface dated 18 August 1910. CONTENTS: --Preface to Famous Imposters, dated 18/8/10 ;--Mary East, dated 3/8/10; chapter VII, Women as Men ;--The motive for disguise (introduction to chapter VII, Women as Men), dated 29/6/10 ;--Hannah Snell, dated 29/6/10; chapter VII, Women as Men. Snell (1723-1792) disguised herself as a man in order to become a soldier;--La Maupin, dated 6/8/10 ; chapter VII, Women as Men. La Maupin was opera singer Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707)) ;--Titles Fulfilled ambition, and The game begins are written on otherwise blank pages ;--Mathew [Matthew] Hopkins, dated 2/7/10 ; chapter V, Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. Hopkins (c.1620-1647) was a witch hunter during the English Civil War;--Mother Damnable, dated 2/7/10 ; chapter V, Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. Mary Ann Conklin (1821-1873) ran Seattle’s first brothel ;--Sir Edward Kelly [Kelley], dated 1/7/10; chapter V, Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. also known as Edward Talbot (1555-1597/8) was a medium and devotee of the occult ;--La Voisin [Madame La Voisin], dated 27/6/10; chapter V, Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. Catherine Monvoisin (c.1640-1680) was a fortune teller and poisoner ;--Doctor Dee, dated 29/6/10 ; chapter V, Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. Dee (1527-1608/9) was a mathematician, astronomer, occultist, and alchemist ;--Princess Olive, dated 25/5/10; chapter I, Pretenders. Olivia Serres (1772-1834) was an English painter and writer who laid claim to the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland ;--The false Dauphins, dated 4/5/10; chapter I, Pretenders ;--Stefan Mali, dated 18/2/10 ; chapter I, Pretenders. Šćepan Mali (c.1739-1773) was the first and only czar of Montenegro ;--Perkin Warbeck, dated 15/2/10 ; chapter I, Pretenders. Warbeck (c.1474-1499) was a pretender to the English crown ;--The hidden King, dated 24/2/10; chapter I, Pretenders. Sebastian of Portugal (1554-1578) ;Incomplete, from which the once? complete manuscript was disbound. The physical appearance of IE TCD MS 11603, The Wandering Jew manuscript, confirms that it was once a part of IE TCD MS 6168; the former has also been digitised and made available. See the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library’s catalogue entry here: https://manuscripts.catalogue.tcd.ie/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=IE+TCD+MS+6168&pos=1
Provenance
  • Bought from Bertram Rota Ltd, 4-6 Saville Row, London W1X 2LN, catalogue 185 summer 1973 no.s 301, 224, 87, 130, 10 July 1973.
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  • ink
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  • paper (fiber product)
Culture
  • Irish
Digital Object Id
  • MS6168_001
Source
  • 0152321

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