The Profligate Son Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England, by Nicola Phillips

How does a dandy pay for his lifestyle? Clare Brant follows a rake’s descent into crime, dissolution and disrepute

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December 3, 2015
Last updated
December 3, 2015
Clare Brant
A Whistling Shop: Tom & Jerry visiting Logic “on board the Fleet”. (at the debtor’s prison)
Source: A Whistling Shop: Tom & Jerry visiting Logic “on board the Fleet”. (at the debtor’s prison)/MEPL

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