ISBN: 9780465008926

Description: xix, 332 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title: True story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction: the profligate heir
• The sins of the father
• An improper education
• Lessons in love and life in London
• An officer and a gentleman
• Boarding the fleet
• To the brink of destruction
• A mansion of misery
• Cheltenham and Gloucester unmasked
• Retribution
• The nature of a contagious distemper
• Of gentlemen and convicts
• Ruined suitors.

LCCN: 2013009617

Control Number: 944760

Subjects:

• Criminals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
• Jackson, William, 1791-1828.
• Penal transportation -- Australia.
• Youth -- Great Britain -- Conduct of life.