List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. An Impolite Society
2. Bucks, Beaux and ‘Pinks of the Ton‘
3. ‘The Seventh Heaven of the Fashionable World’
4. Relative Values: The Cost of Living
5. London: The Most Prosperous City in Europe
6. From the Seaside Resorts to the Northern Meeting
7. ‘A Mistress Had a Better Deal Than a Wife’
8. Clubs and Taverns: Gambling and Gluttony
9. The Age of Indulgence
10. The Pursuit of Pleasure
11. Charades and Epigrams: The Country House
12. Fashion, Manners and Mores: The New Liberalism
13. On the Eve of Reform
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
