The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku

List of Figures

Figures Front cover. Stuart-Young in Onitsha. Fig. 1. Conviction of “John Mount Stewart Young” at the City of Manchester Court of Summary Jurisdiction, 8 February 1899 22 Fig. 2. Photograph of Stuart-Young taken in the year of his conviction 31 Fig. 3. Photograph of Stuart-Young taken in 1904 or 1905 58 Fig. 4. Photograph of Stuart-Young taken in 1895 59 Fig. 5. “My Own Jack”: letter purportedly from Oscar Wilde to Stuart-Young 60 Fig. 6. “My Dear Jack”: letter purportedly from Oscar Wilde to Stuart-Young 60 Fig. 7. “My Dear Mahaffy”: authentic letter in Wilde’s handwriting 61 Fig. 8. “‘Ibrahim the Unkissed’ and J. M. Stuart-Young” 79 Fig. 9. Photograph of Onwuije Hayford Bosah taken during his tour of Britain with Stuart-Young in 1911–12 81 Fig. 10. “The Admirer” 85 Fig. 11. “The Hearer” 85 Fig. 12. Letter from Stuart-Young to Frank Harris, dated 11 April 1925 95 Fig. 13. Carved staff in the form of the python as foreigner 99 Fig. 14. Map of Back Kay Street drawn by Stuart-Young 121 Fig. 15. Ardwick and Back Kay Street in 1932 121 Fig. 16. Typical dwellings in Ardwick, Manchester: Back John Street, 1902 122 vii Fig. 17. Street scene from Ardwick, Manchester: 4–8 Union Place, 1902 122 Fig. 18. A view of Stuart-Young’s neighborhood as it is today: Kale Street, which replaced Kay Street 123 Fig. 19. Buildings on the site of Back Kay Street in 2005 123 Fig. 20. St. Thomas’s School, Ardwick 124 Fig. 21. Photograph of the boys’ entrance, St. Thomas’s School, Ardwick 125 Fig. 22. The Little House of No Regrets in 2005 168 Fig. 23. Contemporary uses for gravestones from the old cemetery, where Stuart-Young was buried 169 viii w Figures ...