THE REIGN OF BEAU BRUMMELL

by Willard Connely ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, 1940

A vogue gone by, symbolized and personified in this exquisite eccentric, Beau Brummell, fluent and graceful in presentation. Eton and Oxford found him precociously aware of himself; later he was an intimate member of the coterie around the Prince Regent, fat George. He became a successful do-nothing, gallant, dandy, arbiter of attire. There followed years of extravagance, of gambling, of brief but meaningless affairs. A break with the prince and bankruptcy forced him to France, where the last half of his life was spent in comparative poverty, punctuated by a paltry consulate position, by paralytic seizures, by loss of memory and ending in an institution.

Pub Date: Oct. 17, 1940

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Greystone

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1940

Categories: NONFICTION