The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London
Introduction: the 'brilliant vortex' 1. The beau monde: London's little coterie 2. Leading the fashion: 'a most brilliant shew' 3. Life in the town: 'all together and all distinct' 4. Politics and fashionable life: 'all the chatter chitter I heard' 5. The court and fashionable display: 'most tastefully spangled' 6. Beauties: 'so pow'rful her charms' 7. Risk, exile and fraud: a changeable world Conclusion Notes Index