Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Paperback

23 Feb, 2021

By Tori Telfer (Author)

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams--by th...

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ISBN-10:

0062956035

ISBN-13:

9780062956033

Publisher

Harper Perennial

No.of Pages

352

Dimensions

8 X 5.25 X 0.9 inches

Description

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams--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 best--or worst.

In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy 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 Confederacy--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 Carnegie's 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 "artists" are still conning.

Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathology--and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?

Product Details

ISBN-10

:       0062956035

ISBN-13

:       9780062956033

Publisher

:       Harper Perennial

Publication date

:       23 Feb, 2021

Category

:       True Crime

Sub-Category

:       Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

Format

:       Paperback

Reading Level

:       All

No. of Pages

:       352

No. of Units

:       1

Dimension

:       8 X 5.25 X 0.9 inches

Weight

:       249 g

About the Author

Tori Telfer -

Tori Telfer is the author of Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History and the host of the podcasts Criminal Broads, Why Women Kill: Truth, Lies, and Labels (CBS All Access), and Red Flags (Investigation Discovery). She lives in New York City with her husband and son.


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