LEADER 02584nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910456677903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-74223-113-6 035 $a(CKB)2520000000009443 035 $a(EBL)533823 035 $a(OCoLC)635291501 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000675093 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11396005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675093 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668449 035 $a(PQKB)10990577 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC533823 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL533823 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10370186 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000009443 100 $a20091102d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA swindler's progress$b[electronic resource] $enobles and convicts in the age of liberty /$fKirsten McKenzie 210 $aSydney $cUNSW Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2009. 311 $a1-74223-110-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Prologue: His Lordship on trial; Part one: Arcadia; Et in Arcadia ego; The price of the county; Part two: Rum and disgrace; Harewood at bay; The lost heir; Part Three: Antipodes; A wild and distant shore; His Lordship's tour de force; Epilogue: The play is played out; Reflections on A Swindler's Progress; Notes; References; Index 330 $aIn May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, prematurely balding man was charged with forgery. The prisoner claimed he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence trickster and serial impostor. Was this the real Edward Lascelles, heir to one of Britain's most spectacular fortunes? How had he come to vanish? What does his tale tell us about status and class, property and wealth, and nobles and convicts in the first part of the nineteenth century? Part mystery story, part narrative history, this is a tale of swindlers, adventurers and 606 $aImpostors and imposture$vCase studies 606 $aSocial status$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImpostors and imposture 615 0$aSocial status 676 $a364.16/3 676 $a364.163 700 $aMcKenzie$b Kirsten$f1970-$0885103 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456677903321 996 $aA swindler's progress$91976190 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01394nam 2200349Ia 450 001 996389740103316 005 20200824132216.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000639383 035 $a(EEBO)2248517889 035 $a(OCoLC)ocm8940202e 035 $a(OCoLC)8940202 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000639383 100 $a19821109d1655 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 14$aThe English hermite, or, Wonder of this age$b[electronic resource] $ebeing a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living near Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange, reserved, and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh...or to drink any wine...he left the army and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture.. 210 $aLondon $c[s.n.]$d1655 215 $a[5], 15 p 300 $aReproduction of original in the Huntington Library. 330 $aeebo-0113 606 $aHermits 606 $aVegetarianism 615 0$aHermits. 615 0$aVegetarianism. 700 $aCrab$b Roger$f1621?-1680.$01009918 801 0$bUMI 801 1$bUMI 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996389740103316 996 $aThe English hermite, or, Wonder of this age$92350766 997 $aUNISA