Violet Gordon Charlesworth
A portrait of Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth, in scottish dress(b.1884). She became notorious for faking her own death in 1909 by allegedly being thrown from her motor car into the sea from the cliffs at Penmaenbach near Llandudno, but was later discovered alive and well, and sentenced to hard labour
Picture No
12152259
Media ID
46125187
Size
5151px x 6474px
(7.0MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 13th January 1909, page 3
Date
1909
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