In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature Works of poetry.
After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford and the radical leader Jo.
Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing.
Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley-which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole.
In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature Works of poetry