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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Langbeschreibung
At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarilywealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriageand 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 eccentricduke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inheritthe Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu MarieEatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fictionand when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights.
Piu Eatwell is the author of Black Dahlia, Red Rose and The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse and has produced and researched historical documentaries for the BBC and other channels, including the widely acclaimed film Charles Manson: The Man Who Killed the Sixties. She divides her time between Paris and London with her husband and three children.
ISBN-13:
9781631492310
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.09.2016
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Piu Eatwell
Gewicht:
295 g
Format:
206x137x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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