Tag: Victorian

• Downfall of a Victorian Fraudster

  Jabez, pictured on the front cover, wasdescribed by contemporaries as being short  and stout with spindly legs. Jabez Spencer Balfour was a Victorian businessman and MP who had some very creative accounting methods. When his fraud was discovered and his massive business empire collapsed, he ran away to Argentina with a young lady who was not…

  chrisharding53

  October 8, 2012

  David McKie, financial fraud, Jabez Spencer Balfour, Jabez the Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue, swindler, Victorian

• Consequences – Beware of Spoilers

  If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite happy to know the outcome in advance – indeed, sometimes I even sneak a peek…

  chrisharding53

  September 12, 2012

  Consequences, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, novel, suicide, Victorian