Charlatan : the dishonest life and dishonoured loves of Thomas Guthrie Carr, stage mesmerist / Catherine Jinks
- Bib ID:
- 7342525
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jinks, Catherine, 1963-, author
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia, 2017
- ©2017
- 256 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780143785545 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Charlatan is story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case. With a driving narrative and novelistic pacing, this scrupulously researched account of the life of Thomas Guthrie Carr – who lied, fought and sleazed his way around Australia and New Zealand between 1865 and 1886 – is more than just a fascinating piece of social history. It’s also a mystery, a piece of true crime, and a delicately humorous portrait of a man whose eye for the main chance and ferocious pursuit of publicity makes him an oddly contemporary figure. With a star-studded supporting cast, including the Duke of Edinburgh, the Mad Dentist of Wynyard, the Nunawading Messiah, and a host of shady mesmerists, spiritualists, phrenologists and hired goons, Charlatan delves deep into a side of colonial history not often explored, and unearths a Victorian-era celebrity who should never have been forgotten.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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