Confident WomenAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 29 April 2021
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A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of historyâ?Ts notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scamsâ?"by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the bestâ?"or worst. In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-RAcmy 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. In the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was soon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the Confederacyâ?"or the Union, depending on who she was talking to. Meanwhile, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegieâ?Ts illegitimate daughter. In the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show dogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling their stories to magazines. What about today? Spoiler alert: these â?oartistsâ?? are still conning.A Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathologyâ?"and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?
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