The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and IntrigueW. W. Norton & Company, 5 oct 2015 - 368 páginas A Book Riot Best Book of the Year “It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.” —Library Journal At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he’d led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights. |
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5th Duke Adlam Ann Robinson Anna Maria Druce Annie AtherleyJones Australia Baileys Baker Street Baker Street Bazaar brother Bury Bury St Edmunds Caldwell’s CavendishBentinck Chancellor Tristram Charles Crickmer coffin court crossexamination Daily Express daughter death December detective Dew’s diary died Druce affair Druce claim Druce vault Duke of Portland Duke’s dukedom Edmund Kimber Elizabeth Crickmer England evidence exhumation fact Fanny Fanny’s father Freshfields George Hollamby governess grave Hamilton Harcourt House Henry Herbert Druce Highgate Cemetery Hollamby’s Horace Avory Idler Inspector Dew interview J. G. Littlechild John Lady letter London Lord marriage married Mary Ann Robinson Mary Robinson Marylebone Mepol mysterious newspaper NUPl opened perjury photograph Plowden police proceedings records Robert Caldwell SCENE secret Shaw & Gillett Sheridan solicitors story Sykes T. C. Druce Thomas Charles Druce Tichborne told trial Turner Victorian Walter Dew Welbeck Abbey Welbeck estate wife William witness woman Workhouse Worksop