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Nicola Phillips

The Profligate Son

Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England

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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. This book tells the dramatic and moving story of one of those 'profligate sons': William Jackson, a charming teenage boy, whose embattled relationship with his father and frustrated attempts to keep up with his wealthy friends,resulted in personal and family tragedy.From popular public school boy to the pursuit of prostitutes, from duelling to debtors' prison and finally, from fraudster to convicted fel… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-151132-5
  • EAN: 9780191511325
  • Produktnummer: 16977936
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'527 KB
  • Abbildungen: 16pp b&w plates

Über den Autor


Nicola Phillips is an expert in gender history and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Politics at Kingston University. Her first book was on women in business from 1700 to 1850, and her research focuses on eighteenth-century gender, work, family conflict, and criminal and civil law. Nicola is also an advocate of public history. A co-founder of Kingston University's Centre for the Historical Record, she is also a member of the National Archives UserAdvisory Group and the Historical Association's Public History Committee, and has acted as a historical consultant for the National Trust, the Royal Mail, and Addidi Wealth Ltd. She has also contributed to radio and TV programmes on gender history.

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