They came for the visual spectacle offered by the "gigantic" Orton (and his unusual companion, known as "Black Bogle"), and the sensational courtroom drama. The large crowds that amassed to watch the Tichborne trial were an unlikely mix of the curious and downtrodden: "Lots of women, just as it was with Trump, lots of poor working people, lots of people who felt they had no recourse socially or economically in England, certainly rubberneckers too," Smith says. Similar contradictions surround both men: Orton is a people's champion claiming an aristocratic fortune Trump, a billionaire representing the disenfranchised. There was a magazine named after Tichborne there was a political group … petitions taken to parliament," says Smith, who sees the same dynamic driving Trump's popularity today. "It became not just a court case but a political movement. The following year, he arrived in London, where Lady Tichborne and Andrew Bogle - a formerly enslaved Jamaican who had worked for the Tichborne family and knew Sir Roger as a young man - threw their support behind his claim. In 1865, Thomas Castro, a butcher from Wagga Wagga, came forward claiming he was the lost Sir Roger. His grief-stricken mother, Lady Tichborne, never gave up hope her son was alive and published reward notices in far-flung newspapers, including the Sydney Morning Herald, in her search. Roger Tichborne, the 25-year-old heir to an aristocratic fortune, was shipwrecked and presumed dead on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to New York in 1854. It's more about mood, ideas and human personalities." A Trumpian figure Information is not the point of the novel. "When I'm writing, I'm thinking … my reader is the kind of cyborg who, at the click of a button, can find out about Wagga Wagga or Roger Tichborne. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice."When you're writing, you have to be aware that the internet exists," Smith says. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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