The Jamaican heiress who faked her own daughter’s death

Lady Elizabeth Webster nee Vassall by Robert Fagan, Naples, 1793 Not long now till my new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery, hits the shelves on 4 September, so I'm beginning to share some of the most intriguing stories from the book... beginning with this one about the strange case of a Jamaican heiress driven to fake her own daughter's death in Italy! Have you heard…