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Frank Kermode: A great forger of the nineteenth century, 16 December 2004
John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the 19th Century
by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.
Yale, 1483 pp., £100, August 2004,0 300 09661 5 Show More
by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.
Yale, 1483 pp., £100, August 2004,
“... by the 19th-century forgers were more sophisticated, though less celebrated, than those with which William Henry Ireland in the previous century had deceived James Boswell and many others, though not the great Shakespearean Edmond Malone (himself guilty of tampering with manuscripts). The men of this new age were ... ”