Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… a remarkable contributor to the creation of a British model of sociability. Oliver Goldsmith, the author of his first biography, published shortly after his death in 1761, draws the portrait of a riotous young man and a womanizer who, … Bath society was more egalitarian, more open and more refined than in the past . 7 5 . See the title of John Eglin’s biography of Nash, The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath (London: Profile Books, 2005). 6 . …
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