Title: Fortune and men's eyes
First published: 1982
Description: 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
Places: Great Britain
People: John Payne Collier (1789-1883), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), J. Payne Collier (1789-1883)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR2951