This myriad of genres hints at the issues regarding the relationship between history and fiction that have already been raised in Annear’s earlier work Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne.
Spanning the greater part of the nineteenth century and spread over three continents, the ensuing saga is part history, part detective story, part courtroom drama, and part farce. In The Man Who Lost Himself, Robyn Annear recounts the story of a Wagga butcher who claimed to be the long-lost heir to the vast Tichborne estate in England.
School of Philosophical, Historical, and International StudiesĮras Journal – Crawford, R: Review of “The Man who lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant”, Robyn Annear Robyn Annear, The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002 Isbn 1 877008 17 6
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