Issue Details: First known date: 1929... 1929 Stranger than Fiction : An Illiterate Girl's Imposture
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The story of an English servant girl who posed as 'Princess Caraboo'. She spoke a strange language no one understood and was taken in by a country magistrate, Samuel Worrall, and his wife. She was eventually exposed as Mary Baker, a cobbler's daughter.

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