Karoly Hajdu (1920–1981), later and better-known as Dr Charlotte Bach, was a Hungarian-born impostor turned fringe evolutionary theorist. In the persona of the latter, she developed an alternative theory of evolution which acquired a cult following among a number of prominent writers and scientists in the London of the 1970s. Only after her death did they discover that Bach had neither been a scientist—nor even a biological female.
Read more about Charlotte Bach: Life As A Man, Life As A Woman
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“Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)