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A lesson from Beau Brummell
Robert Ross, NJ:
I thought you might enjoy this little anecdote, which was new to me: Last night I blazed through Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly (Free Press, 393 pages). This book is a charming little antidote to the well ordered world of Jane Austen, one of my favourite authors. Many internet denizens would probably feel right at home in his raucous world. Social cruelty was an art form. Brummell used his wit to amuse and also to defend himself. At an affair with the Prince of Wales, Mr Kelly reports, ‘a comment of Brummell's so enraged the prince that he threw a glass of wine into Brummell's face. Brummell, sitting...
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