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Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London and Paris by R.H. Gronow (Hardcover, 2006)

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Captain Rees Howell Gronow was a dandy, a debtor, a duelist and a raconteur who lived the high life in Regency London and Paris. He was also a talented writer and his memoirs form the liveliest picture of Regency society ever produced. A contemporary noted that Gronow 'committed the greatest follies, without in the slightest disturbing the points of his shirt collar.' An epitome of style, the personification of the man about town, he devoted his life to fashionable and exciting pursuits. And he lived in exciting times. He was a Waterloo veteran, knew the obnoxious Prince Regent, mixed with the imperious Beau Brummell, was a friend to both Byron and Shelley, and, generally, was at the very heart of high society. Inevitably, Gronow's lively memoir is inhabited by a cast of belles, beau sabreurs, courtesans, dandies, duelists, eccentrics, gamblers, heroes, millionaires, mistresses, matriarchs, and more. As a debtor seeking refuge in Paris, Gronow would produce these astonishing anecdotes which remain an outstanding source for historians. This edition presents Gronow's Regency recollections in an accessible form, aimed at the general reader as much as the aficionado. Here, all the fascinating details of Regency life put on their gaudy show: how to get invited to a ball, how to fight a duel, how to make a successful elopement, how to win (and just as importantly, how to lose) at the gambling table, and how to wear the right trousers. It is more than a manual to Regency style, it is a record of a life well lived and a life brilliantly remembered.

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Publisher
Ravenhall Books
ISBN-13
9781905043071
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91447558

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Book Title
Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London and Paris
Author
R.H. Gronow
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Height
240mm
Item Width
159mm

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Title_Author
R.H. Gronow
Editor
Christopher Summerville
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London and Paris by R.H. Gronow (Hardcover, 2006)

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