A Swindler's Progress : : Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty /

A Swindler's Progress : : Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty / / Kirsten McKenzie.

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In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence trickster and serial impostor. Was this...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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McKenzie, Kirsten,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PROLOGUE: HIS LORDSHIP ON TRIAL
  • PART ONE Arcadia
  • Introduction
  • 1 ET IN ARCADIA EGO
  • 2 THE PRICE OF THE COUNTY
  • PART TWO Ruin and disgrace
  • Introduction
  • 3 HAREWOOD AT BAY ‘
  • 4 THE LOST HEIR
  • PART THREE Antipodes A
  • Introduction
  • 5 A WILD AND DISTANT SHORE
  • 6 HIS LORDSHIP’S TOUR DE FORCE
  • EPILOGUE: THE PLAY IS PLAYED OUT
  • REFLECTIONS ON A SWINDLER’S PROGRESS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • Tafel

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