Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… amongst the most fashionable, Nash was an eccentric. He always wore an expensive ‘cream-coloured beaver' ( Anstey, letter XII: l.96) and a tricorn hat: ‘his dress was tawdry, tho’ not perfectly genteel ‘ (Goldsmith 49). He was not a … Bath au XVIIIe siècle. Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes: PUR, 2000). Leffever, Rowland, professional gambler, 'letters to Richard ('Beau') Nash re gambling debts', 1752-1761 (Acc 662). Bath and North East Somerset Record Office. … Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash ( 1762 ). Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide (1766), p. 70-80 (' Letter XI . A Description of the Ball, with an Episode on Beau Nash'). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology The Life of Beau Nash …
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