Fortune and men's eyes : the career of John Payne Collier

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In 1850 John Payne Collier was acclaimed as a man of prodigious learning. A decade later, he was almost universally despised, accused of outrageous crimes and deceptions, condemned to live another twenty years in disgrace and unremitting self-recrimination. -- from first chapter.

subjects: Biography,  Editors,  Forgeries,  History,  Literary forgeries and mystifications,  Scholars,  Collier,  Conspiracies

People: John Payne Collier (1789-1883),  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  J. Payne Collier (1789-1883)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century