Swindlers and Financial Collapse in Victorian Economic History and Literature (original) (raw)

Major Swindles, Swindlers, and Financial Collapses in Victorian England

• John Sadleir
• George Hudson
• The 1866 Collapse of a major investment firm — Overend, Gurney, and Company

Swindles, Swindlers, and Financial Collapse in Victorian Literature

• Thomas Carlyle’s Hudson’s Statue (1850)
• Merdle in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855-57)
• Charles Lever's Swindler as Hero in Davenport Dunn (1858-59)
• The “Stain Cast upon Our Age and Our Civilization:” The Harm Davenport Dunn did to Britain
• Merdle in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855-57)
• Augustus Melmotte in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (1875)

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