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Roger Dodsworth (hoax)
Roger Dodsworth was the focus of a widespread hoax in 1826, in which he was claimed to be a man who had fallen into a coma in the Alps in the late seventeenth century and thawed out to return to life in 1826. It is now best known for the short story of the same name by Mary Shelley, published posthumously in 1863, drawn from the story.
==Hoax==
A French newspaper story, published on 28 June 1826, reported "a most extraordinary event"; a man, around thirty years old, had been discovered buried under a pile of ice in the Alps. On pulling the body out and bathing it in warm water, the man woke up, and declared himself to be Roger Dodsworth, son of the antiquarian Roger Dodsworth, born in 1629 and buried under an avalanche in 1660. The story appeared in translation in a London paper a week later, and from there was widely picked up by the British press.〔Robinson, p. 21. The first appearance in London was in the ''New Times'', quoted in Robinson, but it is not clear if they themselves invented the French story, allegedly taken from the ''Journal du Commerce de Lyon''. No available source appears to quote a French original.〕
The story circulated through various newspapers, gaining embellishments on the way, with the ''Scotsman'' suggesting bathing in milk as an antidote to century-old stiff joints, and ''John Bull'' reporting that Dodsworth himself had arrived in London. In mid-July, the story gained a satirical dimension, with a poem by Thomas Moore published in the ''Times'' characterising the long-dead Dodsworth as a perfect Tory, "a good obsolete man, who never of Locke or Voltaire has been a reader".〔Robinson, pp. 22-23〕 In the ''Sun'', William Cobbett contributed a spurious story of a man who had fallen into a coma in a frozen pond in Westmoreland for three hours.〔Robinson, p. 22〕
In September, by which time the story was widely understood to be a hoax, a series of letters were published in ''John Bull'' claiming to be from Dodsworth, written in a deliberately archaic style.〔Robinson, pp. 23-24〕 Other letters included a "correction" in the ''New Monthly Magazine''.〔"Letter from the Gentleman Preserved in Ice". ''New Monthly Magazine'', issue 67 vol 17, 1826, pp. 453-458; Robinson, p. 25〕 The third and final letter was published in November, at which point the hoax disappeared from the press.〔Robinson, pp. 25-26〕
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