Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

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    In 1865, a British man who was working as a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, contacted a wealthy English family to announce himself as their long-lost heir. Roger Tichborne, an aristocrat, had been presumed drowned after a shipwreck in 1854, though his mother refused to accept his death and spent years searching for him, sendingLiterary Hub

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