{"id":1106,"date":"2011-11-30T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com.br\/hypercubic\/2011\/11\/a-carta-da-martha\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:48:00","slug":"a-carta-da-martha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/hypercubic\/2011\/11\/a-carta-da-martha\/","title":{"rendered":"&gt;A carta da Martha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Em julho de 1833, George Harry Gray, sexto conde de Stamford e segundo conde de Herrington (1765-1845) recebeu uma carta que come\u00e7ava assim:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">\u00c9 com vergonha, com indescrit\u00edvel vergonha que eu presumo me dirigir a Vossa Senhoria com estas linhas. Mas, tendo conhecimento da pessoa de Vossa Senhoria desde minha inf\u00e2ncia e lembrando-me dos relatos do car\u00e1ter emp\u00e1tico e benevolente de Vossa Senhoria, eu estou prestes a confiar um assunto de grande infort\u00fanio \u00e0 honra e segredo de Vossa Senhoria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Assinada por \u201cMartha Turner\u201d, a carta prosseguia, contando que ela havia abandonado sua m\u00e3e vi\u00fava no Natal por causa de um homem que lhe prometera se casar com ela <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small\">[com&nbsp;\u201cMartha\u201d]<\/span>, mas que acabou abandonando-a, deixando-a&nbsp;\u201c<i>arru\u00ednada <\/i>e <i>perdida<\/i>\u201d (grifos originais). Ela, ent\u00e3o, pedia \u201cuma pequena assist\u00eancia pecuni\u00e1ria\u201d, implorando ao duplo conde para resgat\u00e1-la \u201c<i>da completa destrui\u00e7\u00e3o<\/i>\u201d e de \u201c<i>uma morte miser\u00e1vel<\/i>\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">S\u00f3 que, da mesma maneira que o <i>spammer<\/i> nigeriano, Martha Turner simplesmente n\u00e3o existia. Seu apelo foi inteiramente inventado por Joseph Underwood, que era apenas mais um entre cerca de 250 missivistas impostores que enganavam as classes abastadas da Inglaterra dos anos 1830. Underwood escreveu a carta de Martha em uma letra (aparentemente) feminina. Para refor\u00e7ar o golpe, ele tamb\u00e9m forjou mensagens do suposto sedutor da mo\u00e7a e de um cl\u00e9rigo que corroborava o relato tr\u00e1gico de <i>Miss <\/i>Turner.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Underwood chegou a ganhar quase mil libras por ano com o golpe da carta da Martha. Descoberto diversas vezes, o impostor passou por v\u00e1rios per\u00edodos de deten\u00e7\u00e3o. Em 1838, John Grant, outra v\u00edtima de Underwood, escreveu:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">Se a faculdade de cria\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 um dos principais atributos de [um] g\u00eanio, Underwood era um g\u00eanio de primeira magnitude. A for\u00e7a e a inspira\u00e7\u00e3o de seus fatos imaginativos eram not\u00e1veis. Tivesse ele voltado sua aten\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 reda\u00e7\u00e3o de romances, em vez da profiss\u00e3o de missivista impostor, n\u00e3o h\u00e1 o que dizer sobre qu\u00e3o alto estaria seu nome nesse momento na literatura corrente no pa\u00eds.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Underwood, infelizmente, n\u00e3o deve ter visto esse conselho: ele faleceu na pris\u00e3o de Coldbath Fields, em Clerkenwell, perto de Londres, naquele mesmo ano de 1838.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt; Em julho de 1833, George Harry Gray, sexto conde de Stamford e segundo conde de Herrington (1765-1845) recebeu uma carta que come\u00e7ava assim: \u00c9 com vergonha, com indescrit\u00edvel vergonha que eu presumo me dirigir a Vossa Senhoria com estas linhas. Mas, tendo conhecimento da pessoa de Vossa Senhoria desde minha inf\u00e2ncia e lembrando-me dos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"material-hide-sections":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,73,117,196,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartas","category-crime","category-fake","category-literatura","category-spam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&gt;A carta da Martha - hypercubic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/hypercubic\/2011\/11\/a-carta-da-martha\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Escrito por\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Renato Pincelli\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. tempo de leitura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Renato Pincelli\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c7be1e2811d061a75d3b4f4960eb53bd\"},\"headline\":\"&gt;A carta da Martha\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-30T13:48:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":388,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"cartas\",\"crime\",\"fake\",\"literatura\",\"spam\"],\"inLanguage\":\"pt-BR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\\\/hypercubic\\\/2011\\\/11\\\/a-carta-da-martha\\\/\",\"name\":\"&gt;A carta da Martha - 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