Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… Jesse credits him with the ‘art of pleasing’ (I: 119); Brummell also possessed the gift of making friends. Jesse’s biography frequently references Brummell’s ‘album’, a book into which the great dandy himself entered poems written to or … were no longer useful to him (Jesse I: 38). 1 . My entry is indebted to two biographies in particular: Brummell’s first biography by his contemporary Captain Jesse and Ian Kelly’s modern study: Captain Jesse, The Life of George Brummell, …
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