Zadie Smith's The Fraud explodes the historical novel
- Written by: Sharon Bickle, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Photographs published in 1876 designed to prove that Roger Tichborne (left) and the 'Claimant', (right) were one and the same, as per the central blended image.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAVictorian England loved a juicy scandal and Zadie Smith situates The Fraud in one of the mid-19th century’s most toothsome cause célèbres:...
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