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

The Profligate Son: Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

Nicola Phillips, Nicola Phillips

332 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. Thi...

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