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The profligate son : or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain
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- Creator
- Nicola Phillips
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- xix, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465008926, 0465008925, 9780465037742, 0465037747
- OCLC
- ocn225874943
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.
- Introduction: the profligate heir -- The sins of the father -- An improper education -- Lessons in love and life in London -- An officer and a gentleman -- Boarding the fleet -- To the brink of destruction -- A mansion of misery -- Cheltenham and Gloucester unmasked -- Retribution -- A contagious distemper -- Of gentlemen and convicts -- Ruined suitors