Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… an immensely powerful figure in London’s leading circles of the bon ton , the fashionable world. He could make and break reputations. That the court failed to fulfil its role as a centre of power during the Regency years facilitated … Erskine, Lord Byron, and Lord John Townshend. A darker aspect of his sociable interaction is that Brummell also had a reputation for dropping friends who were no longer useful to him (Jesse I: 38). 1 . My entry is indebted to two …
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