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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