A novel that turns on a celebrated and divisive legal case captures the variety of voices in 19th-century London.
A British paper boy with a placard announcing the end of the 1873-4 legal case against the ‘Tichborne claimant.’In 1866 a man appeared in England claiming to be Roger Tichborne, the heir to a wealthy aristocratic family who had been presumed dead following a shipwreck a dozen years earlier. Tichborne’s grief-stricken mother immediately embraced this man as her son, despite major inconsistencies in his story.
Tichborne had spoken fluent French; this man, whom investigators hired by others in the Tichborne family discovered to be an Australian butcher named Arthur Orton, didn’t know a word. Tichborne had been of average size; this man was enormously overweight. Even so, as the dispute was sensationalized by the press, public opinion became hotly divided along class lines, with many of London’s poor taking up Orton’s cause.
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