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Author:

McWilliam, Rohan.

Title:

The Tichborne claimant : a Victorian sensation / Rohan McWilliam.

Publisher:

Hambledon Continuum,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 363 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Orton, Arthur,--1834-1898.
Doughty-Tichborne, Roger Charles,--1829-1854.
Trials (Imposters and imposture)--England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-348) and index.

Contents:

pt.1. The man from Wagga Wagga -- Enter the claimant -- Going to law -- The courtroom -- Stumping the country -- The great trial at bar -- The Magna Charta Association -- The people's candidate -- Tichborne radicalism -- After Kenealy -- pt.2. In search of the claimant -- Spectacle -- Singing the claimant -- The freeborn Briton -- Melodrama -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

1852854782 (hbk.)
9781852854782 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007280904

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)