Horace De Vere Cole: The Patron Saint of April Fools' Day
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General Biographies:
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The Sultan of Zanzibar: The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, by Martyn Downer:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
The Cambridge Hoax:
Reid, P. (1998). Stephens, Fishers, and the Court of the “Sultan of Zanzibar”: New Evidence from Virginia Stephen Woolf’s Childhood. Biography, 21(3), 328–340. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540072
Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem, by Jamie Collinson
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The Dreadnought Hoax:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bi...
Johnston, G. (2009). Virginia Woolf’s Talk on the Dreadnought Hoax. Woolf Studies Annual, 15, 1–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24907113