Issue 8
- A gentleman is a man who is rude only when he intends to be". So said Churchill. What were Jane Austen's views on the subject? Would she have said Now, Sir Winston, that is witty, but it is not sound - you know it is not sound!
- Joanna Brown on the extravagant life and sad death of Beau Brummell
- Joceline Bury reviews a definitive new biography of Lord Nelson, hero of the high seas and uncompromising adulterer.
- Pamela Spencer on St Helena with Napoleon in exile
- Graham Davis on the romantic image of the Irish gentleman fortune-hunter. Not to forget the fictional heroes.
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