The Catfish, a novel by Charles Marriott, 1913
Posted: April 15th, 2021, 12:13 pm
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There's an article in the March 2021 issue of Wired Magazine by Virginia Hefferman about the internet phenomena of "catfishing." https://www.wired.com/story/bed-tricks-cod-hidden-history-of-catfishing/. Hefferman asserts that the term "catfishing" originated with Charles Marriott's 1913 novel "The Catfish;" and she discusses, in detail, the plot of Marriott's book, which she claims is a "mesmerizing psychological novel."
Marriott's novel isn't in the LibriVox catalog.
There's an article in the March 2021 issue of Wired Magazine by Virginia Hefferman about the internet phenomena of "catfishing." https://www.wired.com/story/bed-tricks-cod-hidden-history-of-catfishing/. Hefferman asserts that the term "catfishing" originated with Charles Marriott's 1913 novel "The Catfish;" and she discusses, in detail, the plot of Marriott's book, which she claims is a "mesmerizing psychological novel."
Marriott's novel isn't in the LibriVox catalog.