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Regency Recollections

Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London And Paris

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An edition of Regency Recollections (2006)

Regency Recollections

Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London And Paris

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This book is a manual of Regency etiquette -- the correct way to dress, get invited to a ball, lose at the gaming table, fight a dual or elope. This book is the best contemporary account of life between 1810 and 1820. This book is an ideal companion to Jane Austen and Regency literature. Captain Rees Howell Gronow was a dandy, a debtor, a duellist and a raconteur who lived the high life in Regency London and Paris. A witty soldier and socialite, 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, and, generally, was at the heart of a very high society. Inevitably, Gronow's lively memoir is inhabited by a cast of belles, courtesans, dandies, duellists, 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, 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. - Jacket flap.

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Publisher
Ravenhall Books
Language
English
Pages
207

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Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London And Paris
September 30, 2006, Ravenhall Books
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Welwyn Garden City, UK

Table of Contents

Preface : Rees Howell Gronow : a miniature portrait
Part one : Gentlemen's sons
Part two : A hot corner of it
Part three : The rendezvous of all idlers
Part four : The highest and best society

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2006

Contributors

Editor
Christopher Summerville

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
207
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.1 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8774839M
ISBN 10
1905043074
ISBN 13
9781905043071
Library Thing
2061071
Goodreads
833623

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