Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… his lifetime. Brummell-like figures, or dandies in a wider sense, appeared in numerous fictional texts: T. H. Lister’s novel Granby (1826), with its dandy Trebeck, which Brummell actually read, as well as Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Pelham … his self-assumed, quasi-sacerdotal function in Le Peintre de la Vie moderne (1863). 6 . Thomas Henry Lister, Granby: A Novel, 3 vols. (London: Colburn, 1826); Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, 3 vols. (London: …
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