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The Victorian 'lady swindler' with 40 aliases who convinced an admiral to be her sugar daddy and tried to con an island of crofters

The Victorian 'lady swindler' with 40 aliases who convinced an admiral to be her sugar daddy and tried to con an island of crofters

Despite being illiterate and uneducated, Annie Gordon Baillie forged herself a career as one of the Victorian era's most notorious con women.

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