The Athenæum review expressed regret at being compelled to rank this novel well below GC
's earlier works. It guessed at a laudable motive behind the story: a view to making the fashionable world less...
Literary responses
Isabella Neil Harwood
The Times claimed that Kathleeninstantly fixes the reader's attention, and that it was a better book than Raymond's Heroine, with a plot that was both well thought out and well written. The Standard...
Timeline
1871-1872: A civil trial against the Tichborne estate...
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1871-1872
A civil trial against the Tichborne estate trustees was brought to court and was eventually lost by the Tichborne Claimant who alleged that he was heir to the Tichborne estate in Hampshire.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
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1873-1874: The Tichborne Claimant was found guilty,...
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1873-1874
The Tichborne Claimant was found guilty, in a criminal trial, of impersonating heir Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne
, Bart., after he had attempted to claim the Tichborne family estate.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
804-5
1875: Charles Reade dedicated his novel The Wandering...
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1875
Charles Reade
dedicated his novel The Wandering Heir to Mary Elizabeth Braddonas a slight mark of respect for her private virtues and public talents.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
