Picture No | 12152248 |
Date | 1909 |
Description | Violet 'Gordon' Charlesworth |
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A portrait of Miss Violet 'Gordon' Charlesworth(b.1884), showcasing her elaborate and expensive clothing. 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.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 16th January 1909, page 69. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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