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Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

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Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

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“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
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Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including by Carleton herself. Investigating the fraudster’s life, Laura Kolb finds a self-fashioning figure who both influenced the emergence of the English novel and serves as a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits, like the heiress manqué Anna Delvey.

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