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The profligate son : or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain / Nicola Phillips.
Van Pelt Library DA522.J27 P55 2013
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA522.J27 P55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Nicola (Nicola Jane)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, William, 1791-1828.
- Jackson, William.
- Youth--Great Britain--Conduct of life.
- Youth.
- Penal transportation.
- Conduct of life.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Criminals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Criminals.
- Australia.
- Penal transportation--Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- True story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain
- Profligate son
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the profligate heir
- The sins of the father
- An improper education
- Lessons in love and life in London
- An officer and a gentleman
- Boarding the fleet
- To the brink of destruction
- A mansion of misery
- Cheltenham and Gloucester unmasked
- Retribution
- A contagious distemper
- Of gentlemen and convicts
- Ruined suitors.
- The sins of the father : India and England, 1798-1805
- An improper education : home, school, and Sponging House, 1805-1807
- Lessons in love and life in London : London and Reading School, 1808
- An officer and a gentleman : London and uernsey, 1809-1810
- Boarding the fleet : London Debtors' Prisons, 1810-1812
- To the brink of destruction : London, 1812
- A mansion of misery : Newgate and the Old Bailey, 1812
- Cheltenham and Gloucester unmasked : town and jail, 1812-1813
- Retribution : Woolwich Hulks, 1813
- The nature a contagious distemper : transportation, 1814
- Of gentlemen and convicts : Australia, 1814-1820
- Ruined suitors : Australia and England, 1820-1828.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780465008926
- 0465008925
- 9780465037742
- 0465037747
- OCLC:
- 225874943
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